Recorded earthquakes in Greenland
GEUS' Earthquake Portal provides information on all recorded earthquakes in Greenland. The data are extracted from GEUS' earthquake database and are updated daily. As a result, the timing, locations, and magnitudes of events may change as new data are added and existing events are revised. Continuous quality control is carried out, aiming to identify and remove explosions – typically related to military exercises or the removal of old munitions. Therefore, the list may change over time, and some uncertainty may be associated with the determination of epicentres and depths.
The portal displays information for each earthquake, including the time of occurrence (year, month, day, hour, minute, second) in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the geographical location and depth of the epicentre, and the local magnitude measured on the Richter scale.
Earthquake data can be exported from the portal according to the defined zoom level and map extent.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-05-20
- Identifier
- dk.geus: / earthquake_greenland
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
- GEUS har ansvaret for overvågning og registrering af jordskælv og anden seismisk aktivitet i Danmark og Grønland. Data fra de danske og grønlandske seismografer anvendes til at lokalisere både lokale og fjerne jordskælv. GEUS’ data indgår i den internationale overvågning af jordskælv og atomprøvesprængninger og bidrager til mere præcise lokaliseringer. Derudover danner de seismologiske data grundlag for forskning og rådgivning inden for en bred vifte af seismologiske discipliner – både nationalt og internationalt.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Geology, Earthquakes, Seismology, Greenland
- Keywords
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- Geologi, Jordskælv, Seismologi, Grønland
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Other constraints
- Conditions for re-use of data https://data.geus.dk/geusmap/terms_20140620.pdf
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Denominator
- 100000
- Distance
- -1 m
- Metadata language
- dan
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Location
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / https://epsg.io/25832
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Distribution format
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WMS
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1.1.0
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WMS
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1.1.0
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- 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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Recorded earthquakes in Greenland
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
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-1.1.1-http-get-capabilities
)
seismic_events
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- This field has no significance
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- EITHER data processing history for GEUS Data OR reference to Data source for foreign data
- File identifier
- 8a9c16d5-903e-4ddf-9b7e-c6e6fd1177d7 XML
- Metadata language
- dan
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-21T16:53:52
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003 / ISO 19139:2007
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