Publication Date:
2005
Description:
The digital preservation of the unique seismological heritage consisting of
historical seismograms and earthquake bulletins, and of related documentation (e.g.,
observatory logbooks, station books, etc.), is critically important in order to avoid
deterioration and loss over time [Kanamori, 1988]. Dissemination of this seismological
material in digital form is of equal importance, to allow reanalysis of past earthquakes
using modern techniques and the reevaluation of seismic hazard. This is of particular
interest for those areas where little or no earthquake activity has occurred since the
last significant historical earthquake. In 2001, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e
Vulcanologia (INGV) started an innovative project, Progetto SISMOS (i.e., Sismogrammi
Storici), to scan (i.e., convert into digital form for storage on a computer), at very
high resolution, and archive seismological paper records and related material. The
Italian Ministry for the Environment originally funded the project to encompass the
digitization of seismogram records of the Italian seismic observatories and of
associated bulletins for the period 1895-1984 (i.e., from the early age of seismometry
to the advent of the digital era)
Keywords:
digital
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historical
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Earthquake catalog
;
Seismology
;
Seismicity
;
INGV
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Italy
;
Europe
;
Wave form analysis
;
Simoni
;
7299
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Seismology:
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General
;
or
;
miscellaneous
;
7294
;
Seismic
;
instruments
;
and
;
networks
;
1734
;
History
;
of
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Geophysics:
;
Seismology
