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European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid-Moment Tensors

These pages host various information on seismic source characteristics in the European and Mediterranean area. Our main product is a (routinely updated) catalog of seismic moment tensors for this region. You can also read a short description of the rationale of the project.

The seismic moment tensor is a complete description of the earthquake size and source geometry. The Centroid Moment Tensor (CMT) is a reliable method for calculating moment tensors, by which the Global Centroid Moment Tensor Project systematically studies global seismicity starting from the 80's. We use instead a modified algorithm (modelling intermediate-period surface waves) to compute Regional CMTs (RCMT) for moderate-magnitude events, not studied at global scale.

DATA DOWNLOAD

• RCMT Catalog Search - Try the Beta version!

• Download the entire Catalog, definitive solutions up to November 2023 and Quick RCMT solutions up to present (November 2024)

• Download the Catalog splitted in yearly files

DATA CITATION

• Pondrelli, S. (2002). European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid-Moment Tensors Catalog (RCMT) [Data set]. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). https://doi.org/10.13127/rcmt/euromed

DATA LICENSE

• Data licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0).

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Quick RCMT: rapidly computed solutions, for European-Mediterranean earthquakes

• Italian CMT dataset from 1976 to the 2015, the recently updated Italian CMT dataset, including nearly 40 years of CMTs and RCMTs.

• other RCMTs for specific regions (e.g. Cyprus) or specific seismic sequences (L'Aquila 2009)

• publications related to RCMTs

We use data of the following Seismographic Networks:

• MedNet (doi:10.13127/SD/fBBBtDtd6q)

• GEOFON (doi:10.14470/TR560404)

• IRIS/IDA Seismic Network (doi:10.7914/SN/II)

• Global Seismograph Network or GSN - IRIS/USGS (doi:10.7914/SN/IU)

• Italian National Seismic Network (doi:10.13127/SD/X0FXnH7QfY)

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The European-Mediterranean RCMT Catalog is a project by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)

Researchers involved in the project: Silvia Pondrelli, Simone Salimbeni and Fabiana Loddo.
This project would not exist without Göran Ekstrom, Meredith Nettles, Andrea Morelli, Enzo Boschi and Adam M. Dziewonski.
Material displayed in these pages is organized by Silvia Pondrelli, contact me for any question or comments.