Current Status of Open Data in Historical Earthquake Studies

Abstract

　Earthquake archives and catalogs (chronologies) of historical earthquakes has been digitized as a result of historical earthquake research. Several research projects have already attempted to digitize them, and some of them have been developed into practical databases, and some of them have been released as open data. Most of the existing digital resources on historical earthquakes have been realized through collaboration among seismology, history, and informatics. Here databases related to Japanese historical earthquake research are reviewed. Development of databases and technologies should be incorporated in the future are also shown.