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Map of past earthquakes in Switzerland and neighbouring regions

ECOS09 is the earthquake catalogue of Switzerland and bordering regions. It integrates the following sources: - Macroseismic Earthquake Catalogue of Switzerland (MECOS 02) with events since 250 a.d. – the yearly reports of the Swiss Earthquake Commission since 1879 – earthquake locations of the instrumental networks of the Swiss Earthquake Service (SED) since 1975 – Supplemented by 12 earthquake catalogues from neighbouring countries and international agencies. This data show a selection of earthquakes in Switzerland with a minimum intensity of VI (buildings lightly damaged) from the ECOS09 catalogue.

Simple

Alternate title

Historical earthquakes

Date (Creation)
2011-04-28
Identifier
ch.bafu.gefahren-historische_erdbeben

Status
Completed

Point of contact

Swiss Seismological Service
Sonneggstrasse 5
Zürich
8092
CH
+41 44 633 21 79
http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/index_EN

Point of contact

Hazard Prevention Division, Federal Office for the Environment - BAFU Gefahrenpraevention
Bern
3003
+41 58 464 10 75
https://www.bafu.admin.ch/en/gep-division
Topic category
  • F Geoscientific information

Extent

Extent

Description

Switzerland

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E
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Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular
GEMET
  • earthquake

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  • catalogue

  • opendata.swiss

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Natural risk zones

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  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Opendata OPEN: Open use.
Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
8859 Part 1
Subtopic Category
F3 Natural Hazards
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (SHP)

  • ESRI Personal Geodatabase (MDB)

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ch.bafu.gefahren-historische_erdbeben

WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Historical earthquakes"

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ch.bafu.gefahren-historische_erdbeben

WMS-FSDI service, layer "Historical earthquakes"

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Schweizerischer Erdbebendienst

Link to description

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STAC Browser

Link for download

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http://map.bafu.admin.ch

Link to portal

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RESTful API von geo.admin.ch

RESTful API from geo.admin.ch

Statement

Die Karten der historischen Erdbeben in der Schweiz und im grenznahen Ausland basieren auf den Daten des historischen Katalog ECOS02 des Schweizerischen Erdbebendienstes.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Geometric object type
Point
Reference system identifier
EPSG:2056

Metadata

Metadata identifier
3d1d7649-8c27-435c-ae74-7c0f2e3fbcf1

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Rumantsch
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Hazard Prevention Division, Federal Office for the Environment - BAFU Gefahrenpraevention
Bern
3003
+41 58 464 10 75
https://www.bafu.admin.ch/en/gep-division

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/3d1d7649-8c27-435c-ae74-7c0f2e3fbcf1

Date info (Creation)
2011-08-24T13:40:43Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-04-13T09:16:18.265335Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

earthquake
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Natural risk zones
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure catalogue opendata.swiss


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