The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use
The history of earthquakes in South America starts with the coming of the Spanish and Portuguese «conquistadores» at the beginning of the 16th century. Their chronicles, and those of local historians, are the only source of earthquake information for the following 400 years. The creation of the Regi...
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| author | L. R. Valverde E. Migliorini I. Leschiutta A. A. G. Capera A. Giesecke |
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| description | The history of earthquakes in South America starts with the coming of the Spanish and Portuguese «conquistadores» at the beginning of the 16th century. Their chronicles, and those of local historians, are the only source of earthquake information for the following 400 years. The creation of the Regional Centre for Seismology for South America (CERESIS) was a major factor for homogenous regional progress, in that CERESIS promoted the implementation of the first unified earthquake catalogue and database for the whole Andean Region. This paper reviews basic information about the intensity database and the focal parameter catalogues proposed by CERESIS in 1985. Further macroseismic data available from the CERESIS database (earthquakes with I0 = 8) are used to obtain preliminary results for the earthquake source parameters of selected South American historical events. The case of the Great Earthquake of the Venezuelan Andes, 29 April 1894, is presented in some detail. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7dd7cd13f404f778cb32e1429aca9052022-12-21T19:45:07ZengIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)Annals of Geophysics1593-52132037-416X2004-06-01472-310.4401/ag-3310The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of useL. R. ValverdeE. MiglioriniI. LeschiuttaA. A. G. CaperaA. GieseckeThe history of earthquakes in South America starts with the coming of the Spanish and Portuguese «conquistadores» at the beginning of the 16th century. Their chronicles, and those of local historians, are the only source of earthquake information for the following 400 years. The creation of the Regional Centre for Seismology for South America (CERESIS) was a major factor for homogenous regional progress, in that CERESIS promoted the implementation of the first unified earthquake catalogue and database for the whole Andean Region. This paper reviews basic information about the intensity database and the focal parameter catalogues proposed by CERESIS in 1985. Further macroseismic data available from the CERESIS database (earthquakes with I0 = 8) are used to obtain preliminary results for the earthquake source parameters of selected South American historical events. The case of the Great Earthquake of the Venezuelan Andes, 29 April 1894, is presented in some detail.http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/3310historical seismicityCERESIS databaseSouth Americaintensity data pointsearthquakesource parameters |
| spellingShingle | L. R. Valverde E. Migliorini I. Leschiutta A. A. G. Capera A. Giesecke The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use Annals of Geophysics historical seismicity CERESIS database South America intensity data points earthquakesource parameters |
| title | The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use |
| title_full | The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use |
| title_fullStr | The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use |
| title_full_unstemmed | The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use |
| title_short | The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use |
| title_sort | ceresis earthquake catalogue and database of the andean region background characteristics and examples of use |
| topic | historical seismicity CERESIS database South America intensity data points earthquakesource parameters |
| url | http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/3310 |
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