| On behalf of the Chairman of the ISC Governing Council, I enclose our invoice for the subscription of Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik to the International Seismological Centre for 2016 for the sum of UK 4030.
Last year´s celebration of 50 years of the ISC during the Prague IUGG meeting was very successful and included 22 presentations from leading international scientists who demonstrated the value of the ISC in all areas of earth sciences. The Centre now has the challenge of building on this success to support the seismological community.
To this end ISC has recruited 5 new members of staff from the UK, Europe and Canada who have begun working on different areas within the ISC as well as various development Projects to move the ISC services forward.
The preliminary ISC Bulletin continues to be available soon after seismic events occur and the Reviewed Event Bulletin, the result of meticulous analysis by a group of ISC seismologists is now available for years 1964-2012.
The Visual Bulletin Analysis System (VBAS) project, joint with the Oxford University, continues to progress. The Goal is to speed up the Bulletin analysis with the intention to make the use of paper, in the preparation of the Bulletin, redundant and all analysis being performed interactively.
A new Version of ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue, Version 3.0 (1900-2012) has been released. This work benefits researchers studying seismic hazard on a global and regional scale and is the result of a special effort to adapt an substantially extend and improve currently existing bulletin data for global earthquakes. |