INQUA Scale

Update: 04/04/2012

INQUA TERPRO - Focus Group on Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics

 

INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) since 80 years is an international organization for all scientists dealing with Quaternary and Environmental Geology. The structure of INQUA comprehends 5 Commissions, including the Commission on Terrestrial Processes, Deposits and History (TERPRO).
The Focus Group on Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics operates in the frame of INQUA TERPRO (Terrestrial Processes). It aims at promoting studies focused on the effects induced by strong earthquakes on natural environment. It is represented by a network of experts that promotes scientific exchanges in this research area.
The structure is composed by a President and two Vice Presidents. The Scientific Secretary is based at the Spanish Geological Survey.
For further information, go to the official site of the Focus Group.
Other information  are available at the site paleoseismicity.org

 

What's new?

 

The project INQUA #0811 “A global catalogue and mapping of earthquake environmental effects" (2008 – 2011) has finished at the XVIII INQUA Congresss (Bern, 20-27 July 2011), with the first official release of the EEE Catalogue, a global catalogue of effects induced by earthquakes on natural environment realized by the Focus Group coordinated by ISPRA.

For the period 2011-2015 a new project has been approved, named “Parametrization of earthquake environmental effects”. It aims at building empirical relationships between source parameters and intensity of environmental effects based on available information from modern, historical, ancient and paleo earthquakes, with the aim to review also the ESI 2007 scale, the intensity scale based only on environmental effects.
The following five tasks are scheduled:

- EEE Catalogue (ESI-2007)
- EEE Empirical Relationships with Earthquake parametres
- On-Fault paleoearthquake records, Geomorphology and Dating
- Earthquake Archaeological Effects (EAE)
- Tsunami and Paleotsunami Geological Records

The implementation of the EEE Catalogue is an essential activity even for this project. In order to contribute to data collection a web interface for remote uploading was defined by ISPRA. For further information go to the corresponding web page.

Meetings

• The 3rd INQUA IGCP 567 International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology, will be held at Morelia (Mexico) in the period 18 – 23 November 2012.
  Donwload here the First Circular.
• In the frame of EGU 2013 it is scheduled in Vienna (Austria) a joined meeting  between the Focus Group and IAEA ISSC.
• Other meetings will be held in 2013 (Aachen and Leuvin), in 2014 (South Korea) and in 2015 (Fucino, Italia).
  

Links

• Descriptive Memories of the Geological Map of Italy, vol. LXXIV: Intensity Scale ESI 2007
• International Union for Quaternary Research official website (INQUA)
• Terrestrial Commission on Terrestrial Processes, Deposits and History official website (TERPRO)