Greek earthquake impact database (GEID): AD 1800-2024

Earthquakes can affect societies causing dramatic effects in both the built and the natural environments. Greece is characterized by the highest seismicity in the Mediterranean region, with a record of earthquakes and associated phenomena from antiquity up to the present. We organized for the first time a unified earthquake impact database covering the Greek territory from AD 1800 up to 2024, which include building damage and rates of fatalities and injuries. Data about earthquake secondary effects have also been inserted in the database concerning several types of ground failures, such as co-seismic landslides, soil liquefaction, surface fault traces, ground fissures, other environmental changes and tsunamis. The new Greek earthquake impact database (GEID), apart from the descriptive information of an earthquake, also provides parametric attributes such as earthquake epicentre, focal depth magnitude and intensity.   The GEID is of great importance since it may help in studies such as a better understanding of the seismic hazard and risk in Greece and its surroundings.