Instituto Geografica Nacional, Madrid

Within the European Project NERIES, sponsored by the European Commission in the frame of the Specific Programme "Structuring the European Research Area", the NA4 module is devoted to establish a distributed archive of historical earthquake. NA4 objectives are to establish the required tools leading to the compilation of a comprehensive, digital macroseismic intensity database for the largest European earthquakes (with magnitude >=5.8 at least) and a validated and homogeneous European parametric earthquake catalogue for M>=5, to serve as an authoritative reference for users involved in the assessment of seismic hazard and risk. The main focus is devoted to the time-window before 1900. Some highlights about the whole NA4 project, actual state of the initiatives undertaken in the Iberian Peninsula to contribute to it and future developments are presented.