Arctic SDI catalogue
Recorded earthquakes in Greenland
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2025-05-20
- Identifier
- dk.geus / earthquake_greenland
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
- The purpose of the dataset is to document and disseminate information on seismic activity in Greenland and to support monitoring, research and advisory activities within seismology. The dataset contributes to the understanding of earthquake occurrence, seismotectonic conditions and natural hazards in the Greenland region.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- Dataset
- Seismology
- Earthquake
- Database
- Forskningsemner Forskningsemner ( Theme )
- Geografisk Geografisk ( Place )
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- CC BY 4.0
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 100000
- Metadata language
- Da
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 1930-10-31
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- Supplemental Information
- The data are updated continuously, and information on event time, location and magnitude may change as new data are added and existing events are revised. Uncertainty may be associated with the determination of epicentre and depth, particularly for older or weakly recorded events. The dataset is dynamic and reflects the state of knowledge at the time of data extraction.
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 84 / UTM 24N (EPSG:32624)
- Distribution format
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GeoJSON
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WMS
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WFS
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SHP
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GeoJSON
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- OnLine resource
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GEUS earthquake database
GeoJSON for GEUS earthquake database. Data is extracted automatically and quality assured continuously, where other detections are removed e.g. explosions from the military defense. Information such as time, position and size may therefore change. Earthquakes and detections in our neighboring countries are not reviewed by GEUS.
- OnLine resource
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Earthquakes and seismology
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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GEUS is responsible for monitoring and registration of earthquakes and other seismic activities in Denmark and Greenland.
- OnLine resource
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Interactive webmap
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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GEUS' Earthquake portal contains all registered earthquakes across Greenland, extracted from GEUS' earthquake database.
- OnLine resource
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earthquakes_greenland
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OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities
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WMS for Earthquakes Greenland
- OnLine resource
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ms:earthquakes_greenland
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OGC:WFS-1.0.0-http-get-capabilities
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WFS for Earthquakes Greenland
- OnLine resource
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Download
Download dataset as shapefile
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- The dataset is based on data from GEUS’ seismic monitoring network in Greenland. Earthquakes are recorded using seismographs and analysed to determine event time, location, depth and magnitude. The data form part of both national and international seismic monitoring and are updated continuously. Quality control is performed to identify and exclude non-seismic events, such as explosions, where possible. The dataset includes both confirmed and suspected earthquakes.
- File identifier
- 8a9c16d5-903e-4ddf-9b7e-c6e6fd1177d7 XML
- Metadata language
- Danskda
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-02T08:22:43.201506Z
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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