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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
Identification info
- Alternate title
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Historical earthquakes
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-04-28
- Citation identifier
- ch.bafu.gefahren-historische_erdbeben
Citation identifier
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
-
Swiss Seismological Service
- Voice
-
+41 44 633 21 79
Address
- City
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Zürich
- Postal code
-
8092
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
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sedweb@sed.eth sedweb@sed.ethz.ch
- Streetname
-
Sonneggstrasse
- Streetnumber
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5
- Role
- Point of contact
- Organisation Acronym
-
SED
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
-
Hazard Prevention Division, Federal Office for the Environment
- Voice
-
+41 58 464 10 75
Address
- City
-
Bern
- Postal code
-
3003
- Electronic mail address
-
gefahrenpraevention@bafu.adm gefahrenpraevention@bafu.admin.ch
- Protocol
-
WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
-
BAFU Gefahrenpraevention
- Organisation Acronym
-
FOEN
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
-
GEMET
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earthquake
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-
geocat.ch
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-
catalogue
-
opendata.swiss
-
-
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
-
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Natural risk zones
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-
geocat.ch
-
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
-
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata OPEN: Open use.
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Topic category
-
- F Geology, Soils, Natural Hazards
- F3 Natural Hazards
Extent
- Description
-
Switzerland
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- Distribution format
-
-
ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
()
-
ESRI Personal Geodatabase (MDB)
()
-
ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
()
- OnLine resource
-
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
(
MAP:Preview
)
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
-
ch.bafu.gefahren-historische_erdbeben
(
OGC:WMTS
)
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Historical earthquakes"
- OnLine resource
-
ch.bafu.gefahren-historische_erdbeben
(
OGC:WMS
)
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Historical earthquakes"
- OnLine resource
-
Swiss Seismological Service
(
WWW:LINK
)
Link to description
- OnLine resource
-
STAC Browser
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
)
Link for download
- OnLine resource
-
Link to portal
(
CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
)
Link to portal
- OnLine resource
-
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
(
ESRI:REST
)
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
-
Die Karten der historischen Erdbeben in der Schweiz und im grenznahen Ausland basieren auf den Daten des historischen Katalog ECOS02 des Schweizerischen Erdbebendienstes.
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-12-04T09:31:34.651Z
- Metadata standard name
-
GM03 2+
- Metadata standard version
-
1.0
Metadata author
Responsible party
- Organisation name
-
Hazard Prevention Division, Federal Office for the Environment
- Voice
-
+41 58 464 10 75
Address
- City
-
Bern
- Postal code
-
3003
- Electronic mail address
-
gefahrenpraevention@bafu.adm gefahrenpraevention@bafu.admin.ch
- Protocol
-
WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
-
BAFU Gefahrenpraevention
- Organisation Acronym
-
FOEN
