ESHM20 – Unified Earthquake Catalogue

Earthquakes in EPICA

Earthquakes in EPICA by magnitude value and type, which reflects the typology and reliability of supporting data.

EMEC Catalogue 1900-2014

The complete EMEC catalogue for the period 1900 – 2014 

The ESHM20 unified earthquake catalogue consists of two parts: 

  • the so-called “instrumental” catalogue (after 1900) based on the updated European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue (EMEC,  Grünthal, G., Wahlström, et al.2012),
  • the European PreInstrumental Earthquake Catalogue EPICA (Rovida and Antonucci, 2021;) earthquake catalogue (between the years 1000 CE and 1899).

The ESHM20 unified earthquake catalogue is open for access and feature additional information: a) completing information for each event, and b) declustering information for each event.

Reference

Rovida A., Antonucci A. (2021). EPICA - European PreInstrumental Earthquake CAtalogue, version 1.1 [Data set]. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). https://doi.org/10.13127/epica.1.1

Grünthal, G., Wahlström, R. (2012): The European‐Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue (EMEC) for the last millennium, Journal of Seismology, 16, 3, 535‐57, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-012-9302-y

Danciu L., Nandan S., Reyes C., Basili R., Weatherill G., Beauval C., Rovida A., Vilanova S., Sesetyan K., Bard P-Y., Cotton F., Wiemer S., Giardini D. (2021) - The 2020 update of the European Seismic Hazard Model: Model Overview. EFEHR Technical Report 001, v1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.12686/a15