Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens keeps the unique for Greece historical earthquake records archive. The records on smoked paper are come from the mechanical type seismograms installed in Greece since 1898. To ensure secure storage conditions for the archive is of main interest, so within the frame of the Project of Young Human Resources Support (1995) and with the financing of the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology development of a database was carried out. The database includes the scanned images of usable records of Greek earthquakes for the period 1900-1960. Details about the seismographs, all the scanned images and lists of the selected earthquakes have been included in an atlas and in two CD-ROMs. Moreover software for the digitization of the scanned images developed in order for the user to process the records by spectral analysis methods.

References:

BASKOUTAS, I., KALOGERAS, I., KOUROUZIDIS, M., PANOPOULOU, G. ROUGERIS, P. and STAVROULAKI, P. (1998). Atlas of historical records of Greece, 1900 - 1960. National Observatory of Athens, Geodynamic Institute, 374 pages (and 2 CD-ROMs), in Greek with English abstract.

BASKOUTAS, I., KALOGERAS, I., KOUROUZIDIS, M. and PANOPOULOU, G. (2000). A modern technique for the retrieval and processing of historical seismograms in Greece. Natural Hazards, 21, 55-64.

Those from other institutions or universities who concerned about this work may contact:

Dr. Ioannis Baskoutas (mailto:i.basko@noa.gr?subject=hist-db )

Dr. Ioannis Kalogeras (mailto:i.kalog@noa.gr?subject=hist-db )