ABE Abé (1981 & 1984) - magnitudes of great earthquakes 1900-1984.

ACS Acres International Ltd., 1961

AFL Alvarado et al, 1988

ALQ Alberquerque, New Mexico, USA.

ALV Alvarado, 1993

AMB Ambrayseys, 1994.

ARE Arequipa, Perú

BAA Buenos Aires, Argentina

BCIS Bureau Central International de Sismologie, Strasbourg, France

BCX Ensenada, Baja California

BDA Bath and Duda, 1979

BGS British Geological Survey

BHP Balboa Heights, Panamá

BKS Byerly, California, USA

BLA Blacksburg, Delaware, USA

BMO Blue Mountain, USA

BOG Bogotá, Colombia

BRK Berkeley, California, USA

CAR Caracas, Venezuela

CARR Carr and Stoiber, 1978

CGS US Coast and Geodetic Survey, USA

COM Comitan, México

CON Concepdión, Chile

CRM Caravelle, Martinique

C-V Camacho and Viquez, 1992

FDF Fort de France, Martinique

FELD Feldman, 1988a,b

FEM Feldman, 1988

FIE Gunther Fiedler, Caracas, Venezuela

FIG Figueroa, 1979

FUNV FUNVISIS, Venezuela

GCG Guatemala City, Guatemala

GLD Golden, Colorado, USA

G-M Güendel and McNally, 1986

GUC Geofísica, Universidad de Chile

GUE Güendel, 1986

GUTE Gutenberg and Richter (1954)

IAG Instituto Astronomico y Geofisico, Univ. de Sao Paulo, Brazil

EBO Boschini, 1989

ISC International Seismological Centre, UK

ISS International Seismological Summary, UK

JBS J.B. Shepherd (usually for macroseismic estimates)

JHO Johannsen, 1988

JIM Jiménez, (in prep. at time of writing)

J-M Jordan and Martinez, 1980

JSA Jesuit Seismological Association, St. Louis, USA

KCL Kire,idjian et al, 1977

KRX Sapper, 1925

LAO Large Aperture Seismic Array, Montana, USA

LARI Larios, 1979

LDE Morales, 1983

LDI Morales, 1985

LDO Lamont-Doherty Observatory, New York, USA

LEED Leeds and Moore, 1974

LEJ Leeds, 1974

LIM Lima, Perú

LPA La Plata, Argentina

LPB La Paz, Bolivia

LPZ San Calixto, Bolivia

M-A Montero and Alvarado, 1988

M-G Montero and González, 1990

M-M McNally and Minster, 1981

MAB Meyer-Abich, 1952

MAC Macroseismic magnitude estimate

MACRO Macrosesimic epicentre

MAX Gonzilez, 1987

MCH Chavez and Castro, 1987

MER Merida, Yucutan, México

MGG Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe

MON W. Montero, ECG/UCR

MONT W. Montero

MOS Moscow, Russia

MPR Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

MYA Miyamura, 1980

MYS Miyamura, 1976

NEIC National Earthquake Information Center, Golden, Colorado, USA

NEIS National Earthquake Information Service, Golden, Colorado, USA

NSK Nishenko, 1989

OAE Observatorio Astronómico de Quito, Ecuador

OAX Oaxaca, México

P-S Paniagua and Soto, 1986 (Appendix III)

PAL Palisades, New York, USA

PAS Pasadena, California

PDE Preliminary Determination of Epicenter from NEIS/CGS

PEL Peldehue/Santiago

PRO Peraldo and Montero (in prep. at time of writing)

PSA Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica (INPRES), San Juan, Argentina

RESMAC Red Sísmica Mexicana de Apertura Continental, México

R-1 Father Jesus E. Ramírez, Bogotá, Colombia

ROJ Rojas, 1993 (Appendix III)

ROR Russo, Okal and Rowley, 1992

SAA Shepherd and Aspinall, 1982

SAE Sykes and Ewing, 1965

SAN Santiago, Chile

SAT Shepherd and Tanner, this volume

SBAC Shepherd et al, 1987

SCB Observatorio San Calixto, La Paz, Bolivia

SDD Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

SJG San Juan, Puerto Rico

SJP San Juan, Puerto Rico

SJR San José, Costa Rica

SIS Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Costa Rica

SISRA CERESIS countries of South America

SPEC Special NEIS solution

SSS San Salvador, El Salvador

SUAREZ Gerardo S6arez, UNAM (historical)

SUA Gerardo Súarez, UNAM (historical)

SUC Sucre, Bolivia

SUH Sutch, 1981

SYKES Sykes (L.R.) earthquake catalogue

TAC Tacubaya, México

TOJ Toral, 1992

TRN Trinidad

UNM UNAM México D.F.

UPA Universidad de Panamá Panamá

UPP Uppsala, Sweden

USCGS United States Coast and Geodetic Survey

USGS United States Geological Survey

UVC Universidad de Valle, Cali, Colombia

V-T Víquez and Toral, 1987

VAO Valinhos, Brasil

VEG Vergara, 1990

VIQU Viquez and Carnacho, 1993; Viquez and Toral, 1987

W-C Montero and Climent, 1990

W-H White and Harlow, 1985

WCA Woodward, Clyde Associates

WHE White, 1988

WHT White, 1985

WMP Montero, 1986

WMR Montero, 1989

ZUN Ramón Zúniga, UNAM, México, this project