Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
A unified catalogue containing 290 tsunamis generated in the European
and Mediterranean seas since 6150 B.C. to current days is presented. It is
the result of a systematic and detailed review of all the regional cata-
logues available in literature covering the study area, each of them hav-
ing their own format and level of accuracy. The realization of a single
catalogue covering a so wide area and involving several countries was a
complex task that posed a series of challenges, being the standardization
and the quality of the data the most demanding. A “reliability” value
was used to rate equally the quality of the data for each event and this pa-
rameter was assigned based on the trustworthiness of the information
related to the generating cause, the tsunami description accuracy and also
on the availability of coeval bibliographical sources. Following these cri-
teria we included in the catalogue events whose reliability ranges from 0
(“very improbable tsunami”) to 4 (“definite tsunami”). About 900 docu-
mentary sources, including historical documents, books, scientific reports,
newspapers and previous catalogues, support the tsunami data and de-
scriptions gathered in this catalogue. As a result, in the present paper a list
of the 290 tsunamis with their main parameters is reported. The online
version of the catalogue, available at http://roma2.rm.ingv.it/en/faci
lities/data_bases/52/catalogue_of_the_euro-mediterranean_tsunamis,
provides additional information such as detailed descriptions, pictures,
etc. and the complete list of bibliographical sources. Most of the included
events have a high reliability value (3= “probable” and 4= “definite”)
which makes the Euro-Mediterranean Tsunami Catalogue an essential
tool for the implementation of tsunami hazard and risk assessment.
Description:
Published
Description:
S0435
Description:
3T. Pericolosità sismica e contributo alla definizione del rischio
Description:
JCR Journal
Description:
open
Keywords:
Tsunami Catalogue
;
Euro-Mediterranean region
;
05. General::05.08. Risk::05.08.01. Environmental risk
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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