Region Name
The region name is an automatically generated name from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme, proposed
in 1965, defined in 1974 and revised in 1995. The boundaries of these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from
irregular political boundaries. For example, F-E region 545 (Northern Italy) also includes small parts of France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia
and F-E region 493 (Chesapeake Bay Region) includes all of the State of Delaware, plus parts of the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Virginia. Beginning with January 2000, the 1995 revision to the F-E code has been used in the QED and PDE listings. This
revision includes 28 additional regions, which were defined by subdividing larger regions to provide better coverage for Northwest Africa,
Southeast Asia and seismic zones along oceanic ridges.
Flinn-Engdahl Regionalization Files via ftp
References
Flinn, E.A., Engdahl, E.R. and Hill, A.R., 1974, Seismic and geographical
regionalization, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 64,
p. 771-993.
Flinn, E.A., and Engdahl, E.R., 1965, A proposed basis for geographical and
seismic regionalization, Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 3, p. 123-149.
Young, J.B., Presgrave, B.W., Aichele, H., Wiens, D.A. and Flinn, E.A., 1996,
The Flinn-Engdahl Regionalisation Scheme: the 1995 revision, Physics of the
Earth and Planetary Interiors, v. 96, p. 223-297.
