Aug. 10, 2012 For the first time, scientists of the GFZ German
Research Centre for Geosciences have succeeded in setting up a
harmonized catalogue of earthquakes for Europe and the
Mediterranean for the last thousand years. This catalogue
consists of about 45000 earthquakes. How strong can earthquakes
in Germany be? Where in Europa are the earthquake activities
concentrated? These questions are the basis for risk assessments
and become relevant when it comes to the safety of buildings or
the generation of tsunami.For the first time, scientists of the
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have succeeded in
setting up a harmonized catalogue of earthquakes for Europe and
the Mediterranean for the last thousand years. This catalogue
consists of about 45000 earthquakes, reported in the latest
issue of the Journal of Seismology. Earthquakes occur with
different frequencies of occurrence, meaning that in some
regions, strong earthquakes happen with time gaps of hundreds of
years. Such rare events can cause a fa