Enriching the GEOFON seismic catalog with automatic energy magnitude estimations

Bindi, Dino; Zaccarelli, Riccardo; Strollo, Angelo; Di Giacomo, Domenico; Heinloo, Andres; Evans, Peter; Cotton, Fabrice; Tilmann, Frederik

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1733-2024

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1733-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1733-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

Data description paper

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05 Apr 2024

Data description paper |

| 05 Apr 2024

Enriching the GEOFON seismic catalog with automatic energy magnitude estimations

Dino Bindi, Riccardo Zaccarelli, Angelo Strollo, Domenico Di Giacomo, Andres Heinloo, Peter Evans, Fabrice Cotton, and Frederik Tilmann

Data sets

Global energy magnitude catalog 2011-2023 with event selection driven by Mw Geofon Dino Bindi et al. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.6.2023.010

Model code and software

me-compute: a Python software to download events and data from FDSN web services and compute their energy magnitude (Me) R. Zaccarelli https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.6.2023.008

The SeisComP seismological software package Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and GEMPA GmbH https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.2.4.2020.003

Short summary

The size of an earthquake is often described by a single number called the magnitude. Among the possible magnitude scales, the seismic moment (M_w) and the radiated energy (M_e) scales are based on physical parameters describing the rupture process. Since these two magnitude scales provide complementary information that can be used for seismic hazard assessment and for seismic risk mitigation, we complement the M_w catalog disseminated by the GEOFON Data Centre with M_e values.