Earthquake Archives
"… old seismograms, if properly interpreted, provide
invaluable information on earthquakes in the past, and every effort should be made to save them,
regardless of their quality, from possible loss and to make copies in an easily readable form."
Hiroo Kanamori (1988).
I. Introduction
The purpose of these
International Digital Earthquake Archives (IDEAs) is to preserve
earthquake data, specially seismograms, for future research.
For example, Hiroo Kanamori
used seismograms recorded at Debilt, the Netherlands to demonstrate that the 1960 Chile and the 1964 Alaskan earthquakes
are indeed "Great Earthquakes", much larger than other "great earthquakes", such as, 1952 Kamchatka and 1963 Kurile
earthquakes, 1923 Kanto
and 1924 Mindanao, 2001 Peru, and 2001 Peru.
Seismograms, data, and related materials of selected earthquakes
are stored in archives as computer data files so that they are freely accessible via the Internet,
and seismograms (in originally scanned resolution) are downloadable from the IRIS Data Management Center.
Volunteers and donors are welcome. Please
contact William H.K. Lee.
II. International Digital Earthquake Archives
- 1906 San
Francisco Earthquake Archive dedicated to Prof. A.C. Lawson and Prof. H.F. Reid
- 1906 Aleutian Is. Earthquake Archive in Memory of
Prof. Donald B. Scott.
- 1906 Valparaiso (Chile)
Earthquake Archive in Memory of Prof. Donald B. Scott
- 1909 Taipei (Taiwan) Earthquake Archive in Memory of Prof. Ta-You
Wu
- 1920 Haiyuan, Ningxia Province, Republic of
China
- August 14, 1939 Cuban Earthquake
Archive
- July 29, 1943 Puerto Rico Earthquake
Archive
- July 30, 1943
Puerto Rico Earthquake Archive
- August 4, 1946 Hispaniola Earthquake Archive
- August 8, 1946 Hispaniola
Earthquake Archive
- October 4, 1946 Hispaniola Earthquake Archive
- April 21, 1948 Hispaniola Earthquake
Archive
- June 28, 1948 Fukui (Japan) Earthquake
Archive in Memory of Prof. Masayuki Kikuchi
- May 31, 1953 Hispaniola Earthquake Archive
- 1957 Daly City (California) Earthquake Archive in Memory of Mr.
Manuel G. "Doc" Bonilla (in preparation)
- 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake
Archive in Honor of Prof. Hiroo Kanamori (in preparation)
- 1962 Qazvin (Iran) Earthquake Archive
- 1963 Skopje (Macedonia) Earthquake Archive
- 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake Archive in Honor of Dr. George
Plafker
- 1964 Niigata (Japan) Earthquake
Archive in Memory of Prof. Keiiti Aki
- 1965 Rat Island (Aleutian)
Earthquake Archive dedicated to Prof. William Stauder, S.J. (in preparation)
- 1965 Puget Sound (USA) Earthquake
Archive in Honor of Prof. Robert S. Crosson
- 1966 Gisborne (New Zealand) Earthquake Archive
- 1966 Uganda-Zaire Earthquake Archive
- 1966 Parkfield (California) Earthquake Archive
in Memory of Dr. Jerry P. Eaton
- 1966 Varto (Turkey)
Earthquake Archive
- 1967 Huila (Colombia)
Earthquake Archive
- 1967 Caracas (Venezuela)
Earthquake Archive
- 1967 Koyna (India)
Earthquake Archive
- 1968 Valle del
Belice (Italy) Earthquake Archive
- 1968
Tokachi-oki (Japan) Earthquake Archive in Memory of Prof. Tokuji Utsu
- 1968 Inangahua (New Zealand) Earthquake Archive
dedicated to Dr. Robin D. Adams
(in preparation)
- 1968 San Martin (Peru) Earthquake Archive
- 1968 Dasht-e-Bayaz (Iran) Earthquake Archive
- 1969 Sardo (Ethiopia) Earthquake Archive dedicated
to Prof. Pierre Gouin, S.J. (in preparation)
- 1970
Dagestan (Russia) Earthquake Archive
- 1970 Peru
Earthquake Archive in Honor of Dr. Eric Robert "Bob" Engdahl (in preparation)
- 1970 Peru-Ecuador Earthquake Archive
- 1971 San Fernando (California) Earthquake
Archive
- 1972 Managua (Nicaragua) Earthquake
Archive in Honor of Mr. Robert D. Brown
(in preparation)
- 1987-1988 Gulf of Alaska Earthquake Archive in Memory
of Dr. John C. Lahr
Supported by volunteers and financial donors
Last
updated: March 4, 2020