EPICA
European PreInstrumental Earthquake CAtalogue

EPICA v.1.1 - Table description

 

CODE CONTENT
EqID Earthquake number: unique identifier of the catalogue entry, from AHEAD
SheecID SHEEC earthquake number: ID of SHEEC 1000-1899 v. 3.3
Earthquake origin time and area
Year Origin time: year (from the MDPs source, when available, or from the source catalogue)
Mo Origin time: month (from the MDPs source, when available, or from the source catalogue)
Da Origin time: day (from the MDPs source, when available, or from the source catalogue)
Ho Origin time: hour (from the MDPs source, when available, or from the source catalogue)
Mi Origin time: minutes (from the MDPs source, when available, or from the source catalogue)
Ax Epicentral area (from the MDPs source or from the source catalogue, when available)
Parameters
Reg Region of macroseismic intensity attenuation: assessed with the purpose of calibrating the MDPs methods, Boxer, B&W, MEEP, and deriving Mw(Io) regressions (see Stucchi et al., 2013) 
ICE: Iceland
SCR: Stable Continental
WAP: Western Alps and Pyrenees
BET: Betic
APD: Apennines, North-Eastern Alps and Dinarides
IVA: Italian Volcanic Areas
VRD: Vrancea, deep events
BAS: Broad Aegean, shallow
BAI: Broad Aegean, intermediate
TSZ: Transform Source Zone offshore Portugal
Lat Epicentral latitude [decimal degrees], see Tepi
Lon Epicentral longitude [decimal degrees], see Tepi
TEpi Type of determination of the epicentre:
bx: from MDPs with Boxer
bw: from MDPs with B&W
me: from MDPs with MEEP
cat: from the source catalogue (see CatSource)
pr: preliminary epicentre of the events without magnitude determination
LatUnc Epicentral latitude uncertainty [km], see TepiUnc
LonUnc Epicentral longitude uncertainty [km], see TepiUnc
TEpiUnc Type of determination of epicentre uncertainty:
orig: taken from the source catalogue or determined from MDPs (according to TEpi) 
conv: converted into km from the source catalogue
def: assigned value
H Depth [km]
HUnc Depth uncertainty [km]
TH Type of determination of the depth :
cat: from the source catalogue
me: determination from MDPs, with MEEP
Io Epicentral intensity
TIo Type of epicentral intensity determination:
cat: from the source catalogue
bx: from MDPs, with Boxer
Mw Moment magnitude
MwUnc Moment magnitude uncertainty
TMw Origin of moment magnitude and its uncertainty:
wm: weighted mean of Mw from MDPs and from the source catalogue
MMw: determined from MDPs processing
CMw: determined processing the original parameters of the source catalogue
nd: not determined
Macroseismic Data (MDPs)
MDPsSource Code of the MDPs source for the entry. It provides the date of the
earthquake and the MDPs processed for determining the earthquake parameters
NMDP Number of Macroseismic Data Points in MDPsSource
Ix Maximum intensity in MDPsSource
MMw Moment magnitude from the processing of MDPs
MMwUnc Mw uncertainty from the processing of MDPs
TMMw Method of Mw determination from MDPs:
bx: with Boxer
bw: with B&W
me: with MEEP
Regional catalogue
CatSource Code of the source catalogue for the entry. It provides the date of the earthquake and earthquake parameters  when MDPsSource is empty
CIo Epicentral intensity from the source catalogue
CMw Moment magnitude from the source catalogue
CMwUnc Mw uncertainty associated to the moment magnitude from the source catalogue
CTMw Type of Mw determination from the source catalogue:
Wor: Mw taken from the source catalogue
RIo: converted from Io with Mw(Io) regressions
Ms: considered equivalent to Ms
Gra09: converted from ML according to Grünthal et al. (2009)
wa: unspecified magnitude assumed equivalent to Mw