Earthquake catalogue and seismic maps of the geographical domain of the Commission of the European Communities

This paper summarizes the work presently under way in the Commission of the European Communities in the field of protection of nuclear power plants. In fact, this is the continuation of the Ahorner Report that principally treated the seismic ground motion characteristics and their relationships with displacement, velocity and acceleration transmitted to a structure by the soil particles. As a consequence of the shortcomings of the previously mentioned report, prime priority was given for its completion by a General European Earthquake Catalogue and an atlas of seismic maps accompanied by an explanatory textbook. The latter is briefly described in this paper