Schmidt Institute of the Physics of the Earth Russian Academy of Sciencies
Moscow, Russian Federation
Vladikavkaz Scientific Center RAS
Russian Federation
employee from 01.01.2018 until now
Russian Federation
Vladikavkaz Scientific Center RAS (Geofizicheskiy institut)
Moscow, Russian Federation
UDK 55 Геология. Геологические и геофизические науки
GRNTI 37.00 ГЕОФИЗИКА
GRNTI 38.00 ГЕОЛОГИЯ
OKSO 05.00.00 Науки о Земле
BBK 26 Науки о Земле
TBK 63 Науки о Земле. Экология
BISAC SCI SCIENCE
This paper is devoted to the review of currently functioning seismological agencies, seismic monitoring networks created, developed and supported by them, as well as earthquake catalogs produced. Particular attention is focused on international and national seismological centers and seismic networks. A historical insight about the first observations made by seismic networks completes the picture. The basic parameters of the main seismic networks and the principles of functioning for seismological centers are considered. The key characteristics of seismic catalogs that determine the criteria for their quality are discussed. The system-analytical approach to solving the urgent problem of creating the most complete and representative earthquake catalogs with a unified magnitude scale by integrating data from international, national and regional catalogs in the studied region is presented.
seismic networks; seismological agencies; earthquake catalogs; representative magnitude; magnitude scale; catalog completenes, merging earthquake catalogs
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