Objective To prepare a basic earthquake catalogue of Europe, with special reference to long-termseismicity, and a database of primary data. This dataset will provide a tool for understandingthe time/space seismicity patterns and a reliable input for seismic hazard assessment.The seismicity in Europe is rather uneven: the knowledge of it is also uneven,due to the fact that seismicity is currently investigated at a national level(in some cases even at a sub-national level) and that no systematic,European-size investigation of the period before 1800 has been undertaken so far. National catalogues differ in compilation philosophy, time-window, qualityof primary data, parameterisation procedures, format, updating; some arepublished, some not; in general it is very difficult to state the type andquality of the dataset from which they are compiled.This project will first retrieve and merge the sets of primary information intoa single dataset; this dataset will integrate, for the first time at a Europeanlevel, uniformly assessed data of earthquakes across national frontiers. As afirst step a "working file" will be created by selecting and merging thenational/regional catalogues and performing a preliminary screening, in order toselect the most significant earthquakes for each area. A survey will then beperformed in order to retrieve the existing dataset related to each selectedevent; earthquakes for which data are poor or no dataset is available will beinvestigated, in order to ensure a minimum level of information. The next step, the evaluation of earthquake parameters and the cataloguecompilation will be performed by processing the new dataset according to uniformcriteria. In such a way a new catalogue will be compiled and it will be used forpreliminary hazard assessment, in order to evaluate both the progress allowed bythe new data and the areas/time-windows which require further investigation. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismologysocial sciencessociologygovernancecrisis managementhumanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophy Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 040101 - Seismic hazard Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Address 15,via bassini 20133 Milano Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ENEL.HYDRO SPA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via pastrengo 9 24068 Seriate See on map GEOFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM POTSDAM Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Telegraphenberg 14473 Potsdam See on map Generalitat de Catalunya Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Parc de montjuic 08038 Barcelona See on map IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE GB EU contribution € 0,00 Address Imperial college road, exhibition road SW7 2BU London See on map ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Borgo grotta gigante 42/c Sgonico-trieste See on map NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address Panepistimioupolis ilissia 15784 Zographos, athens See on map NERC British Geological Survey GB EU contribution € 0,00 Address Murchison house west mains road EH9 3AL Edinburgh See on map SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZUERICH Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Eth hoengerberg 8093 Zurich See on map