Earthquakes environmental effects

EEE Catalogue A Global Database of Earthquake Environmental Effects... 

EEE Catalogue A Global Database of Earthquake Environmental Effects, Fig. 1 The public interface of the EEE Catalogue, developed on Google Earth. http //www. eeecatalog.sinanet.apat.it/terremoti/index.php... 

The EEE Catalogue is a free accessible database (http //www.eeecatalog.sinanet.apat.it/terremoti/ index.php) designed at global level to collect information about the characteristics, size, and spatial distribution of Earthquake Environmental Effects in a standard way from modem, historical, and paleoearthquakes. 

Guerrieri L, Tatevossian R, Vittori E, Comerci V, Esposito E, Michetti AM, Porfido S, Serva L (2007) Earthquake environmental effects (EEE) and intensity assessment the INQUA scale project. Boll Soc Geol It (Ital J Geosci) 126(2) 375-386... 

The diagnostic effects for low intensity degrees (I to V) are those on humans, then (VI to IX) those on buildings, and for the highest degrees (X to XII) those on the natural environment. In fact, the earthquake environmental effects (EEEs) start to be noticeable from intensity >1V as indicated in the Enviromnental Seismic Intensity scale (ESI-07 scale Michetti et al. 2007), which is the subject of this chapter. 

ESI-07 scale (Michetti et al. 2007) classifies earthquake environmental effects (EEEs) qualitatively as described in previous macroseismic intensity scales (e.g., MCS, MSK, MM). The ESI-07 scale has been developed primarily to properly describe and quantify EEEs for different intensity levels, based on the extensive amount of observations and research accumulated in the past decades in this field (e.g., Reicherter et al. 2009 ... 

Consequently, ESI-07 scale allows an assessment of seismic intensity based only on the earthquake environmental effects. This can be regarded as is an update, reclassification, and quantification of environmental effects included in the traditional macroseismic scales (MCS, MSK, MM). Its use, alone (in unpopulated regions) or, as a rule, integrated with the macroseismic traditional scales (for instance, intensity degree IX on the ESI-07 is equivalent to degree IX on the MCS, MM, and MSK scales Michetti et al. 2004), will offer a more comprehensive picture of the earthquake s scenario and impact and a more consolidated estimate of intensity, allowing, therefore, a better comparability among different earthquakes. 

Primary and Secondary Earthquake Environmental Effects in the ESI-07 scale... 

Earthquake environmental effects (EEEs) are all the phenomena generated in the namral... 

The ESl-07 scale might also provide a better estimation for intensity assessments than the traditional intensity scales, because earthquake environmental effects are independent from time (modem, historical, or paleo) and do not depend from the socioeconomic development of the region affected by the seismic event. This is tme both ... 

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