The effects of the May 1481 earthquake in Rhodes are described
by Guillaume de Caoursin, Knight of St. John, who witnessed it.
The earthquake street scene is seen from inside the church
of St. John of Collachio (left-hand corner and foreground).
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Around the world, in the last 20 years the Historical Earthquake Studies increased in number and quality, as the result of the joint efforts of multidisciplinary teams. In general terms, there is a huge amount of scientific historical earthquake data that sometimes are not available or not easily traceable outside the local or national organizations that have funded and taken care of reporting the investigation.
To master this problem an ad hoc WG on "Historical Seismology" was proposed to IASPEI in 2005, on the occasion of the General Assembly in Santiago, Chile.
The activity of the WG aims at establishing an Open-Access and Open Source Archive of Worldwide Historical Earthquake Studies.
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Query the archive |
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| IASPEI Working Group "Historical Seismology" |
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co-chair
Paola Albini |
co-chair
Katsuhiko Ishibashi |
Istituto Nazionale
di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Sezione di Milano, Italy |
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Faculty of Science, Kobe University,
Kobe, Japan |
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