Flinn-Engdahl regions
The Flinn-Engdahl regions are a scheme for subdividing the earth according to geographical and seismological criteria. For seismologists, it is now the standard for specifying the earthquake region .
The Flinn-Engdahl regionalization scheme was proposed by Eric R. Engdahl and Edward A. Flinn in 1965 , defined in 1974 and revised in 1995. The borders of the regions can deviate from the political borders. The region of Northern Italy with the Flinn-Engdahl ID 545 also contains parts of Switzerland, France, Austria and Slovenia. The 1995 correction, as a result of the subdivision of larger regions and seismic zones along oceanic trenches to better cover these areas, added 28 additional regions.
literature
- Young, JB, Presgrave, BW, Aichele, H., Wiens, DA and Flinn, EA: The Flinn-Engdahl Regionalization Scheme: the 1995 revision, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors . vol. 96, p. 223-297, 1996.
- Flinn, EA, Engdahl, ER and Hill, AR: Seismic and geographical regionalization, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America . vol. 64, p. 771-993, 1974.
- Flinn, EA and Engdahl, ER: A proposed basis for geographical and seismic regionalization, Reviews of Geophysics . vol. 3, p. 123-149, 1965.