CFTI5Med, the new release of the catalogue of strong earthquakes in Italy and in the Mediterranean area.

ABSTRACT: A key element for assessing seismic hazard and risk is the availability of a comprehensive dataset on past earthquakes. Here we present the rationale, structure and contents of CFTI5Med ( https://doi.org/10.6092/ingv.it-cfti5 ), the 2018 version of the Catalogue of Strong Earthquakes in Italy: a large multidisciplinary effort including historians, seismologists and geologists. It was conceived in 1989, following the inception of GIS technology, and first published in 1995 to offer a full account of Italy's strongest earthquakes, of their territorial impact and associated social and economic upheaval. Subsequent versions (1997, 2000, 2007) entailed a fine tuning of research methodologies, included additional research on Italian earthquakes, and were extended to large earthquakes of the Medi

SUBMITTER: Guidoboni E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6546750 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature