Ecos09

ECOS-09, the Earthquake Catalogue of Switzerland, is a project of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) and is a key step in the upgrade of the databases for earthquake hazard assessment for Switzerland and neighboring regions. ECOS was first published in 2002 and included a complete revision of the Macroseismic Earthquake Catalogue of Switzerland (MECOS-02). The 2009 update of the catalogue now includes the instrumental catalogue from the last seven years that relies on high quality broadband data, along with new findings and results from research in historical and instrumental seismology, focusing upon improved methods to derive homogenous magnitudes.
Support for ECOS-09 comes from internal ETHZ and SED budgets, and through a contract with swissnuclear for the compilation of the catalogue and database. ECOS-09 is generated by the fusion of different catalogues covering Switzerland and parts of France, Germany, Austria and Italy.
The revision of ECOS and MECOS catalogues was carried out during the years 2008–2009; the work will continue into 2010 in order to publish ECOS-09.