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CFTI5Med, Catalogo dei Forti Terremoti in Italia (461 a.C.-1997) e nell’area Mediterranea (760 a.C.-1500)

Type Data Collection Class type Seismological and infrasonic data (Earth and sea)

Database Italy Europe Mediterranean Area Earthquake Catalog Earthquake Parameters Macroseismic Magnitude Mcs Intensity Historical Seismology Historical Earthquakes Earth Sciences And Geology Qe - Geology [lcc] 551 Geology, Hydrology, Meteorology [ddc] 554 Earth Sciences Of Europe [ddc] 930 History Of Ancient World [ddc] 945 General History Of Europe Italian Peninsula And Adjacent Islands [ddc] 956 General History Of Asia, Far East Middle East (near East) [ddc]

The Catalogue lists earthquakes that occurred in Italy between 461 B.C. and 1997, and earthquakes that occurred in the general Mediterranean area between the VIII century b.C. and the XV century. This version (CFTI5Med) features: the retrieval and formatting of over 23,000 original bibliographic documents, transcribed or printed, nearly 50% of those utilized in the CFTI5Med. These documents are now available on-line as fully searchable pdf files; a full geological reinterpretation, georeferencing and reprocessing of over 2,300 descriptions of earthquake-induced environmental effects, which are now all available and searchable in a user-friendly web-GIS environment; the elaboration of a number of texts and commentaries that were missing from the CFTI4Med version of the catalogue; a totally re-designed and more efficient web- and web-GIS interface. The new Catalogo dei Forti Terremoti in ltalia includes 1,259 earthquakes that occurred in Italy (98 of which are currently considered false). No commentaries on the main earthquake effects were available in the previous version of the catalogue for 87 of such events as they had not been updated with respect to the information supplied in Guidoboni e Comastri (2005) for the 1000 AD-1500 AD time interval. The commentaries concerning the most significant effects of Italian medieval earthquakes have now been elaborated and are available along with the information on more recent events. For the remainder of the earthquakes first presented with the CFTI4Med - those that occurred in the general Mediterranean area away from the Italian coasts - the new catalogue provides only the felt reports and basic epicentral parameters.

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Cite as

Guidoboni, E., Ferrari, G., Mariotti, D., Comastri, A., Tarabusi, G., Sgattoni, G., Valensise, G. (2018, April 1). CFTI5Med, Catalogo dei Forti Terremoti in Italia (461 a.C.-1997) e nell’area Mediterranea (760 a.C.-1500) (Version 5). Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). https://doi.org/10.6092/INGV.IT-CFTI5

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Field Value
Version 5
Dataset Identifier (DOI) 10.6092/ingv.it-cfti5
Acronym CFTI5Med
Other Identifier OthId Identifier: ingv_19
OthId Organization: INGV
Dataset Themes TECH
Publisher Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Release Date 01-04-2018
Modification Date 25-07-2020
Geographical Name Organizational Unit Responsible Competence Area
GeoNames URL Not available
Dataset Languages ITA
Temporal Coverage Not available
Rights holder Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
ROR 00qps9a02
IPA ingv
Update frequency never
Version Of Not available
Spatial extent {"type": "MultiPolygon","coordinates": [[[ [-8.5,49.5], [60.5,49.5], [60.5,25.5], [-8.5,25.5], [-8.5,49.5] ]]]}
Authors GUIDOBONI Emanuela
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
Eventi Estremi e Disastri, Centro euro-mediterraneo di documentazione (EEDIS), Italy
FERRARI Graziano
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
MARIOTTI Dante
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
COMASTRI Alberto
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
TARABUSI Gabriele
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
SGATTONI Giulia
University of Bologna (UniBO), Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
VALENSISE Gianluca
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
Class type Earthquakes Department
Seismological and infrasonic data (Earth and sea)

Contributing projects

  • Convenzione INGV-DPC Allegato A
    Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri - Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC)
    [ 2000-01-01 ⇒ 2100-01-01 ]
  • Convenzione INGV-DPC All. B2 2017
    Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri - Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC)
    [ 2017-08-01 ⇒ 2017-12-31 ]
  • Convenzione INGV-DPC All. B2 2018
    Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri - Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC)
    [ 2018-02-01 ⇒ 2019-03-20 ]

Other contributors

  • TARABUSI Gabriele (Contact Point)
  • GUIDOBONI Emanuela (Researcher)
  • FERRARI Graziano (Researcher)
  • MARIOTTI Dante (Researcher)
  • COMASTRI Alberto (Researcher)
  • SGATTONI Giulia (Researcher)
  • VALENSISE Gianluca (Researcher)

Data schema

Previous datasets

  • The dataset is a newer version of
    • http://storing.ingv.it/cfti/cfti4/

Alternative datasets

  • The dataset is identical to
    • Guidoboni, E., Ferrari, G., Mariotti, D., Comastri, A., Tarabusi, G., Sgattoni, G., & Valensise, G. (2018). Historical earthquake data from the CFTI5Med catalogue, supplement to: Guidoboni, Emanuela; Ferrari, Graziano; Tarabusi, Gabriele; Sgattoni, Giulia; Comastri, Alberto; Mariotti, Dante; Ciuccarelli, Cecilia; Bianchi, Maria Giovanna; Valensise, Gianluca (2019): CFTI5Med, the new release of the catalogue of strong earthquakes in Italy and in the Mediterranean area. Scientific Data, 6(1). PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896754