EMEC Earthquake Catalogue

• Main Authors: Grünthal, Gottfried, Wahlström, Rutger
• Other Authors: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: GFZ Data Services 2012
• Subjects: EMEC; Earthquake catalogue; European Mediterranean region; Unified moment magnitude; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.001

Abstract The EMEC earthquake catalogue is an extension in time and space of the CENEC catalogue (Grünthal et al., 2009, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-008-9144-9). It consists of some 45,000 entries in Europe and the Mediterranean area and extends to the west to encompass the North Atlantic Ridge. The criteria are Mw ≥ 3.5 for events with latitude ≥ 44°N and Mw ≥ 4.0 for events with latitude < 44°N, in the time period 1000-2006. Data within the catalogue area can be obtained as ASCII-file through the EMEC Earthquake Catalogue Web Service. This webservice also enables the creation of seismicity maps according to user's specifications. In addition, a list of earthquakes in the time period 300-999 for Mw ≥ 6.0 in the catalogue area with latitude ≤ 40°N and longitude ≥ 10°E is given and a list of fake events in the time period 1000-1799.