Abstract
This paper summarizes the content and scope of the “Catalogue of Earthquake Geological Effects in Spain”. The catalogue has been published by the Geological Survey of Spain (IGME) and constitutes the first official publication (in Spain) on seismic hazard containing geological information. The catalogue gathers the 51 stronger earthquakes that have occurred in Spain since the Neolithic period to the present and classifies earthquakes with geological or archaeological seismic records in paleoseismic, ancient, historical and instrumental earthquakes. The catalogue offers a variety of parametric information, quality indexes (Qe, Qi, Qg), and Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale (ESI-07) based description of environmental damage structured in individual “event files”. Sixteen of the 51 catalogued events present full information files (full event files), with individualized analyses of the geological and geoarchaeological data as well as graphic information with hybrid ESI-EMS intensity maps, ShakeMaps (seismic scenarios) and complementary kmz files (Google Earth) for each of the sixteen selected earthquakes; among which is the well-known AD 1755 Lisbon earthquake-tsunami. These selected earthquakes present individual environmental earthquake effects (EEE) or earthquake archaeoseismological effects (EAE) files for each catalogued effect containing specific site geo-information and graphic data (photos, graphs, maps, etc.). The second edition of the catalogue record 1027 EEEs and 187 EAEs, of which 322 effects have individual files.
Highlights
Introduction to the Environmental Seismic IntensityScale ESI-07Recent evaluations of the geological and environmental effects of earthquakes (environmental earthquake effects (EEEs)) indicate that such effects can be certainly parameterized and used for relative intensity assessments [1,2]
EEEs, earthquake archaeoseismological effects (EAE), and data from other recent scientific publications. In those cases in which published geological data, ESI-07 parametric evaluations (EEEs) or archaeoseismic oriented damage (EAEs), point to different source locations than those listed in the IGN catalogue [7] the parametric data of the earthquake is disused in the interpretative section. For those recent earthquakes not included in the Galbis catalogues [45], previous to AD 1940, the section of the original descriptions by Galbis have been substituted by a section of “general information” summarized from available seismic reports or field reports developed by different institutions (IGN; IGME; IAG or Civil Protection)
Though most of the far-field effects are related to the tsunami propagation, some of them occurred in inland water bodies at Reading, Sussex, Plymouth, London (England); Lake district (Cumbria); Lakes Lomod and Ness (Scotland); Lake Binnenalster of Hamburg (Germany); Lakes Léman, Neuchatel and Zürichsee (Switzerland); Telpice Baths (Prague) and the Dal River in Sweden (Baltic Sea)
Summary
Giner Robles 3 , Javier Élez 1 , Raúl Pérez-López 2 and M. Escuela Politécnica Superior de Ávila, Universidad Salamanca, Ávila 05003, Spain. Geoquímica y Geología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain. Escuela Politécnica Superior de Ávila, Universidad de Salamanca, Ávila 05003, Spain
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