European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid-Moment Tensors

These pages host various information on seismic source characteristics in the European and Mediterranean area. Our main product is a (routinely updated) catalog of seismic moment tensors for this region. You can also read a short description of the rationale of our project.

The seismic moment tensor is a complete description of the earthquake size and source geometry. The Centroid Moment Tensor (CMT) is a reliable method for calculating moment tensors, by which the Global Centroid Moment Tensor Project systematically studies global seismicity. We use instead a modified algorithm (modelling intermediate-period surface waves) to compute Regional CMTs (RCMT) for moderate-magnitude events, not well studied at global scale.

Do you want the entire Italian CMT dataset, including more than 25 years of CMTs and RCMTs? click here

• CATALOG SEARCH PAGE
• Catalog Yearly files
• The Italian CMT dataset from 1976 to the present
  
• L'Aquila (Central Italy) 2009 RCMTs
• Quick RCMT: rapidly computed solutions, for European-Mediterranean earthquakes
• New RCMTs for Cyprus region

Pondrelli, S., A. Morelli, G. Ekström, S. Mazza, E. Boschi, and A. M. Dziewonski, 2002, European-Mediterranean regional centroid-moment tensors: 1997-2000, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 130, 71-101, 2002

Pondrelli S., A. Morelli, and G. Ekström, European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid Moment Tensor catalog: solutions for years 2001 and 2002, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 145, 1-4, 127-147, 2004.

Pondrelli, S., S. Salimbeni, G. Ekström, A. Morelli, P. Gasperini and G. Vannucci, The Italian CMT dataset from 1977 to the present, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2006.07.008, 159/3-4, pp. 286-303, 2006.

Pondrelli S., Salimbeni S., A. Morelli, G. Ekström and Boschi E., European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid Moment Tensor catalog: Solutions for years 2003 and 2004, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 164, 1-2, 90-112, 2007.

Pondrelli S., Salimbeni S., Morelli A., Ekström G., Postpischl L., Vannucci G. and Boschi E., European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid Moment Tensor Catalog: solutions for 2005-2008, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., in press, 2011.

European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid Moment Tensors is a joint project between scientists from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Rome, Italy) and of the Glocal Centroid Moment Tensor Project 

We are: Enzo Boschi, Adam M. Dziewonski, Goran EkstrÖm, Andrea Morelli, Silvia Pondrelli, Simone Salimbeni.

Material displayed in these pages is organized by Silvia Pondrelli and Luca Postpischl (send us email for any question or comments).