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ROB Earthquake Catalogue and Database
The earthquake catalogue and database of the Royal Observatory of Belgium contains source parameters of earthquakes that occurred in and around Belgium since 1350. Similar to most other seismic catalogues in the world, the ROB catalogue is heterogeneous, as it is based on the analysis of two different types of data:
- Historical data: concern the period from about 1350 to 1910, for which only local reports about damage and felt effects (i.e. intensity) of earthquakes are available (“macroseismic” observations);
- Instrumental data: concern the period from 1911 onward, the year continuous seismic recordings in Belgium started, up to the present day. For earthquakes during this period both intensity data (from macroseismic enquiries with the local authorities and, since 2000, on the internet) and seismic recordings are available.
The earthquake catalogue is a list of earthquakes with the following parameters: origin time (year, month, day, hour, minute, second), geographic coordinates of the hypocenter (latitude, longitude, focal depth), magnitude (local magnitude ML, surface-wave magnitude Ms and/or moment magnitude Mw), maximum observed intensity, and the name of the locality.
The ROB catalogue is considered to be complete:
- Since 1350 for earthquakes with Mw>=5.0;
- Since 1905 for earthquakes with Mw>=4.0 (seismic station in Uccle and neighboring countries);
- Since 1960 for earthquakes with Mw>=3.0 (4 stations in Belgium);
- Since 1985 for earthquakes with Mw>=2.0 (modern digital network consisting of 20+ stations).
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-10-29
- Citation identifier
- BE.KSB-ORB / 799f9119-77f1-4931-b4e0-4615839ee1c4
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Royal Observatory of Belgium
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- Resource format
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Name Version
- Theme
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Earthquakes
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Federal government
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- Place
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Belgium
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Copyright has to be respected. You can find detailed information here: http://seismologie.oma.be/en/legal-notices/data-policy
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 250000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- gml32:beginPosition
- 1350-01-01
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- gml32:beginPosition
- 1350-01-01
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:4326
- Codespace
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EPSG
- Distribution format
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Name Version GML 3.2.1
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
https://inspire.seismology.be/geoserver/inspire/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WFS
https://inspire.seismology.be/geoserver/inspire/wfs?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS&version=2.0.0
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Dataset
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ROB Earthquake Catalogue and Database
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
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INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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This metadata has been successfully validated using the INSPIRE validator at http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/validator2/
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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Earthquake catalogue established by the Royal Observatory of Belgium. This catalogue is continuously updated based on instrumental data and ongoing historical and geological researches.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 799f9119-77f1-4931-b4e0-4615839ee1c4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-07-15T10:06:16
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Royal Observatory of Belgium
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 Dutch; Flemish UTF8 German UTF8 English UTF8
