The EMSC

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) is an international, non-governmental, non-profit association devoted to the rapid collection and dissemination of earthquake information and the promotion of seismological research. For more detailed information: History and activities of the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (2024)

Initiated in 1975 upon the recommendation of the European Seismological Commission (ESC), then chaired by Stephan Müller, the EMSC started operating at the Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg (IPGS) in 1976. Submitted in 1982, the EMSC official statutes were finally established in 1983. Ever since, the EMSC has operated a system for rapid collection, determination, and dissemination of earthquake parameters using seismic data contributed by seismological institutes around the world together with crowdsourced data from earthquake eyewitnesses.

Head of EMSC at IPGS
Elie Peterschmitt	1975-1981
Jean Bonnin	1981-1982

EMSC President
Heikki Korhonen	1983-1988
Helmut Aichele	1989-1991
Christian Weber	1992-1994
Chris Browitt	1995-2014
Florian Haslinger	2015-2023
Päivi Mäntyniemi	2024-

EMSC Secretary General
Jean Bonnin	1983-1991
Rami Hofstetter	1992-1993
Bruno Feignier	1994-1997
Florence Rivière	1998-2001
Rémy Bossu	2002-

Today, the EMSC is the European infrastructure for seismological parameters and products in EPOS and member of the EPOS Seismology Consortium. It rests on several actors, each contributing to the functioning of such a European seismological data base and to the scientific cooperation among the European and Mediterranean countries in the field of earthquake research.

Download the EMSC Statutes (PDF) and Internal Rules (PDF).

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EMSC membership

The EMSC Executive council is composed of an elected president, a first vice-president chosen from the hosting institute, several vice-presidents chosen among the key nodal members, several elected members chosen among the active members, and a few representatives chosen among the members by right.

EMSC excutive council
Päivi MANTYNIEMI President \| Coordination bureau 📍Institute of Seismology, University of Helsinki, Finland ✉	Gilles MAZET-ROUX First vice-president \| Coordination bureau 📍 DASE/LDG, France ✉	Rémy BOSSU Secretary general \| Coordination bureau 📍 EMSC, France ✉
Joachim SAUL Vice-president 📍 GFZ, Germany	Laura SCOGNAMIGLIO Vice-president 📍 INGV-Roma, Italy	Mario LOCATI Vice-president 📍 INGV-Milano, Italy
Juan Vicente CANTAVELLA NADAL Vice-president 📍 IGN, Spain	Margarita SEGOU Elected member 📍 BGS, UK	Nacer JABOUR Elected member 📍 CNRST, Morocco
Efthimios SOKOS Elected member 📍 Patras University, Greece	Adrien OTH Invited to the Executive council 📍 ECGS, Luxembourg	Carlo Virgilio CAUZZI Invited to the Executive council 📍 ORFEUS, Switzerland
Dmitry STORCHAK Invited to the Executive council 📍 ISC, UK