catalogo de terremotos para america del sur catalog of earthquakes ...

V n u la (1971; 107'); The 'imes Atl as of the World (1973); a;; it.tillIa de
'ombroi;!eigrat i cns , No. 5 (1977) ; Mapa d, Carrete:ran dc Vefnezuei a Lagov;ii
(1 971). ,vewrth bis:, there cxis;t soine blanks of information concernin, the
(;ei rapli ' coordi nates of the l ca lities.i ,t imoned
I;in c':asp.:; (,f '.'Ion iiiic have been idint if ied, frequently: .associatedwith
(hlia11"-: oif Iit'cl io , , rec isel Y he a" e ofI cart lIq'".akus. rI examp le, in the
Statei o 'o'.f iu iri, CAPACI(IO VI[K I was destroyed by the ea rt:hquake of 1875 and
1-tr rpi t u t ?e! tider the naite of 1.1IIEI''AD); i nmmedIi atelyv aft e r Ihat earthiqiak,',
. a)sfoundI)eN(.I, fod'd, 3 km to the East of CAI'ACH) VIM'lO; both
1,,to; .is-:i 1 l, v . A similar sitiuat ion occurs in tlie ;ame S vt ;oise s of
t l .o-ii :ir pi .ak. o I 84q'I whein, due to tie dvs tru't ion of IAi;A'TIERA , trI' present
MI*ClKI,[:N'A is fo ildrd it the site of IA SABANA G(RANI)E. In the State "f H Wrida,
;ANTO M[9M PIN( i) 'x ist ed in the middle of XVI I I th century and as a consequence of
the l al earthfqu;take of 1814, it was relocated in 183B to tie Iocation of BE­
[.IA VISTA, wh,,re it.exi sts today.
['[,ASN :t)R TIlEIk1'I)A' I IC, 10D IFII.ICATION ANID EXIPANS ION OF TIlE CA'I'AI.B)C;HE
E::tpericnce ;it ws thlat cupi lat ion such as of that of thi;s Catalaog cannot
he t i t-'l de tie fdii Ii ve, .sinc'C it is very probable that.
situries, with inij rmatioi unknown at tlie present , exist.
other documcnt:al
On tlie ot her hand,
tlhe qi"iIitv cif the infotrmation is subject to improvcment. Plans; for updat ­
in, the tataIl og ian he diviiled into thiree parts:
I) Recupe,rit ioni of informat i n wtich conid.;iier: (i) a compil ation of desciiptions
concerning tie ef fevtst of past e;rthquakes; (ii) an orderly
revisioi o- tlie existing record., at Cajigal; (Mii) to iiicorporate in
tie cat alog, tie sei sicniv events of recent years;
h) Compl lmen at itn of informat ion for which it is plannetl: (i) evaluation
.of hi t.cricall eartliq akes, pairticilarly of the XIX th century, which
have not yet hien incorporaIt ed in tlie catalogue; ( i i ) t() ",'pare
cat alog; ct of n ilthboring countri:; with informat ion not in lidecd il
the
t he
present VnzSi lt' I ata log, in ord to complete thre iift ',irtill; (iii)
rel eva ;nt sctttitlli',' a (.1 f fcn
c) 'T,, improvw tlI, qiualitv of the infformatit , which recquiris: (i a systemat
it rev;Iluit ion of the hli p' tvun t-a] l parameters of hiistorica l c;irthliqlake.-
IiyV protcedulres different to that described in section 3.2.1
withI ftlt areas and relations different from equation 4);
Miy t I e ' rdi ;tes iF tht l o alities.
(correlation
(i) to ve-
REFER1'i4EN CES
h'l' oding of diuimental sources and ;uthors cited in t.he Catalog, cor­
respond generally to the first tiree letters of the surname of the author or
to tlie first lettcrs of the name or titles of the source; thus, the code CEN
is uscd for Ccinteto, R)IB for Robson, BTSSA for Bole tn dc In Sociviad Sismol6­
'ica de Am"r' ica, etc.