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Quake-related information--maps, reports, advice--for European countries.
European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre
See current and recent earthquakes everywhere in Europe.
Austrian Earthquakes
An overview in German from the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik.
Belgium Seismicity
The Royal Observatory of Belgium has everything, but not necessarily in English.
Quakes in the Czech Republic
The Czech Academy of Sciences posts news of recent earthquakes in this seismically quiet country.
Finland Earthquakes
The University of Helsinki Institute of Seismology has catalogs and maps of Finnish quakes.
Recent Earthquakes in France
The French national seismic network (ReNaSS) shows recent significant events, with reports linked to each, when you click the Sismicité button.
France: French Alps Seismic Network
This University of Grenoble site also covers nearby parts of Italy and Switzerland. Here are maps of historic and recent seismicity.
Germany
The University of Freiburg has bulletins and maps of German quakes (in German).
Recent Quakes in the Rhineland
An interactive map in German from the University of Köln.
Greek Seismicity
An introduction from the National Observatory of Athens.
Iceland Earthquakes
Maps and bulletins from the Icelandic Meteorological Office. For a thrill, click to the Icelandic version.
Italy: Grupo Nazionale per la Difesa dai Terremoti
The National Earthquake Protection Group site has useful pages for recent quakes (some in English) and seismic hazard and engineering studies (in Italian).
Italy: Servizio Sismico Nazionale
The National Seismic Service site has lots of maps, bulletins, reports, and advice in Italian.
Montenegro Seismological Observatory
Material in English and Serbian on the historical and current seismicity of this piece of Yugoslavia.
Seismicity of Norway
The Institute of Solid Earth Physics at the University of Bergen has information about the quakes of this tectonically quiet region, due almost entirely to glacial rebound.
Portugal Seismicity
This page from the Instituto Geofísico do Infante D. Luis has a map of historical seismicity.
Portugal Earthquake Bulletins
A short collection from the Instituto Geofísico do Infante D. Luis.
Romania Seismicity
A map and scattered information from the Romanian National Institute for Earth Physics.
Earthquake Activity in Slovakia
A page from the Slovak National Network of Seismic Stations.
Spain: Andalusian Institute of Geophysics
Recent and historic earthquakes in southern Spain are documented here.
Spain: Seismicity of Catalonia
Quake settings, maps and history from the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (mostly in Spanish and Catalan).
Spain: National Geographical Institute
Click on "Sismología" for reports and maps of recent earthquakes plus weekly summaries of Spanish seismicity.
Swiss Seismicity
A quick map with events shown for the past four weeks, from the Swiss Seismological Service. Their cheese has holes, but not their seismic coverage.
Earthquake Catalog of Switzerland
Felt events beginning in 1021, scored according to the European Macroseismic Scale. Presented by the Swiss Seismological Service.
Seismic Zonation Maps of Turkey
Click on the big map, from the Earthquake Research Department, to see detail maps for major Turkish cities (in Turkish).
Turkish Seismicity
The Earthquake Research Department has a few English-language reports on the tectonic setting of Turkey and recent earthquakes there.
Seismicity and Earthquake Hazard in the UK
The British Geological Survey discusses quakes in Britain, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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