EEE Catalogue: A Global Database of Earthquake Environmental Effects

The recent destructive earthquakes that occurred in Japan (2011; e.g., Lay et al. 2013) and New Zealand (2010–2011 earthquake sequence; e.g., Quigley et al. 2012) have clearly pointed out that traditional seismic hazard assessment based only on vibratory ground motion data needs to be integrated with information about the local vulnerability of the territory to earthquake occurrence. Nowadays, a huge amount of information about the characteristics of Earthquake Environmental Effects (EEEs; i.e., any phenomena generated by a seismic event in the natural environment; Michetti et al. 2004, 2007; Guerrieri et al. 2007) is available for a very large number of earthquakes that occurred not only in the instrumental period and in historical time but also in the prehistorical period (paleoearthquakes, e.g., Mc Calpin 2009; Reicherter et al. 2009).