Director's reports

The Director's report is published annually and provides details of the Centre's operations and achievements for the previous year.

Director's Report: 2021 (pdf)

This was the first year the ISC operated as a charitable incorporated organization (CIO). Despite the continuation of the pandemic, it was a rather productive year thanks to the support of 71 Member-Institutions and 11 Project Sponsors.

As the result of a special effort, production of the Reviewed Bulletin was finally brought back to 24 months behind real time. The data for seismic events during 2018-2021 have been added to the ISC Bulletin. The ISC continued using openly available waveforms to determine the probabilistic point source models, the source mechanisms based on first motion polarities, and to constrain earthquake depths, based on depth phase pickings. Smaller continental earthquakes during the 1976-2017 period and source mechanisms from literature (1915-1989) have been added to the ISC-GEM catalogue. The ISC-EHB dataset and corresponding subduction zone cross-sections have been extended to include the data year 2018.

A new ISC service – the Electronic Archive of Printed Station/Network Bulletins has been put into operation. Both the ISC product download statistics and the large number of scientific research articles indicate extensive worldwide use of ISC data.

Previous reports

Director's report: 2020 (pdf)
Director's report: 2019 (pdf)
Director's report: 2018 (pdf)
Director's report: 2017 (pdf)
Director's report: 2016 (pdf)
Director's report: 2015 (pdf)
Director's report: 2014 (pdf)
Director's report: 2013 (pdf)
Director's report: 2012 (pdf)
Director's report: 2011 (pdf)
Director's report: 2010 (pdf)
Director's report: 2009 (pdf)
Director's report: 2008 (pdf)
Director's report: 2007 (pdf)
Director's report: 2006 (pdf)
Director's report: 2005 (pdf)
Director's report: 2004 (pdf)
Director's report: 2003 (pdf)
Director's report: 2002 (pdf)
Director's report: 2001 (pdf)
Director's report: 2000 (pdf)
Director's report: 1999 (pdf)
Director's report: 1998 (pdf)