The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use

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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Main Authors: L. R. Valverde, E. Migliorini, I. Leschiutta, A. A. G. Capera, A. Giesecke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) 2004-06-01
Series:Annals of Geophysics
Subjects:
historical seismicity
CERESIS database
South America
intensity data points
earthquakesource parameters
Online Access:http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/3310
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1593-5213
2037-416X

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