The SISFRANCE database aims to collect and interpret archives relating the historical seismicity in metropolitan France. presently contains some 12,500 documents that allow define 108,832 macroseismic data points, for a total of 6427 events, which 5743 can be qualified as real earthquakes. Although half these events are will probably remain poorly known, completing our knowledge earthquakes rem...

Unreinforced masonry (URM) structures are known to be rather vulnerable to seismic loading. Modern URM buildings with reinforced concrete (RC) slabs might, however, have an acceptable seismic performance for regions of low to moderate seismicity. In particular in countries of moderate seismicity it is often difficult to demonstrate the seismic safety of modern URM buildings by means of force-ba...

Tidal triggering of earthquakes in diverse tectonic settings has been well documented, albeit the mechanisms and implications remain elusive. Here we present solid earth ocean tide modulation micro-seismicity, associated with caldera dynamics 2015 axial seamount eruption Juan de Fuca ridge, from well-monitored micro-seismicity catalog mid-ocean ridge volcanoes to gain an insight into complex in...

In most cases of reservoir-induced seismicity, seismicity follows the impoundment, large lake-level changes, or filling at a later time above the highest water level achieved until then. We classify this as initial seismicity. This ‘‘initial seismicity’’ is ascribable to the coupled poroelastic response of the reservoir to initial filling or water level changes. It is characterized by an increa...

Detecting weak seismic events from noisy sensors is a difficult perceptual task. We formulate this task as Bayesian inference and propose a generative model of seismic events and signals across a network of spatially distributed stations. Our system, SIGVISA, is the first to directly model seismic waveforms, allowing it to incorporate a rich representation of the physics underlying the signal g...