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.
Download the entire Catalog, definitive solutions up to December 2023 and Quick RCMT solutions up to present (November 2024)
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 licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0).
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)
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)
The
European-Mediterranean RCMT Catalog is a project by |
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.