AcronymsA-G - Abitibi-Grenville
AB - Alberta Basement
ADRIA - Adria plate GSHAP test area
ANN - Artificial Neural Nets
AGSO - Australian Geological Survey Organization
AGU - American Geophysical Union
APKIM - Actual Plate Kinematic Model
APWP - Apparent Polar Wander Path
ARW - NATO Advanced Research Workshop
BABEL - Baltic and Bothnian Echoes from the Lithosphere
BEECD - Basic European Earthquake Catalogue and Database
BGI - Bureau Gravimétrique International
BHTV - Borehole Televiewer Data
BIRPS - British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate
BKG - Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodaesie
CALIXTO - Carpathian Arc Lithospheric X-Tomography
CATS - Central Asian Tectonic Sciences
CAUCAS - Test area for seismic hazards in the Caucasus
CBG - Brazilian Geological Congress
CEC - Commission of the European Communities
CEI - Central European Initiative
CENAPRED - Centre for the Prevention of Disasters
CEPRIS - EC/OPA Centre EuroMediterraneen d'evaluation et de Prevention di Risque Sismique
CERESIS - Centro Regional de Sismología para América del Sur
CGDS - Centre of Computer Geophysical Data Studies
CHAMP - Challenging Microsatellite Payload
CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States
CJES - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
CNCPRST - Centre National de Coordination et de Planification de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, Rabat
COCORP - Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (US)
CODE - Centre for Orbit Determination in Europe
COILS - Committee on the Interdisciplinary Lithospheric Surveys
COMTEC - Commission on Tectonics of the IUGS
CRC - Collaborative Research Centre
CRICYT - Regional Centre of Scientific and Technical Research
CROP - Crosta Profonda
CSB - China Seismological Bureau
DACH - GSHAP test area covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland
DE - Deep Europe
DEKORP - German Reflexion Seismic Profiling Program
DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
DGFI - German Geodetic Research Institute
DLC - Danish Lithosphere Centre
DNSG - National Geological Survey of Argentina
DORSALES - French study of oceanic lithosphere
DOSE - Dynamics of the Solid Earth
D-INSAR - Differential synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry
D-PAF - German Processing and Archiving Facility
EANHM - Eastern Asia Natural Hazards Mapping project
EC/OPA - European Council - Open Partial Agreement an Major Disasters
ECGS - European Centre for Geodynamics and Seismology
ECORS - French seismic reflection profiling group
ECSOOT - Eastern Canadian Shield Onshore-Offshore Transects
EDM - Electronic Distance Measurement
EDNES - Earth Data Networks for Education and Scientific Exchange
EGT - European Geotraverse
ELGI - Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute
EMI - Earthquake and Megacities Initiative
EMSC - European Mediterranean Seismological Centre
ENTEC - Enviromental Tectonics research
ERS - The European Remote Sensing Satellites
ESARS-WG - Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Seismological Working Group
ESC - European Seismological Commission
ESF - European Science Foundation
ESSC - EUROPROBE Scientific Steering Committee
EUG - European Union of Geosciences
EUROBRIDGE - geological-geophysical transect, Sweden-Baltic-Lithuania-Belarus-Ukraine
EUROPROBE - ESF program of multidisciplinary investigations of tectonics and dynamics of European crust and mantle
FIRE - Faeroe-Iceland Ridge Experiment
FSU - Former Soviet Union
GDSN - Global Digital Seismograph Network
GEDEPTH - German Depth Profiling of Tibet and the Himalayas
GEOFRANCE 3D - French study of continental lithosphere
GEOLIMEX - Geotraverse of the Lithosphere in Mexico
GEONA - Geology, Geophysics, Earth Structure and Seismic Hazard Assessment in North Africa
GEORIFT - EUROPROBE project highlighting anorogenic extensional
GIS - Geographic Information System
GISP - Global Impact Studies Project
GFZ - GeoForschungsZentrum
GGP - Global Geodynamics Program
GGT - Global Geoscience Transects
GRACE - Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
GPS - Global Positioning Systems
GSA - Geological Society of America
GSC - Geological Survey of Canada
GSJ - Geological Survey of Japan
GSHAP - Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program
GTH - Ground Temperature History
HIBISCUS - Height Investigations to Broaden Information both on mean Sea level Changes and Understanding of Surface vertical movements in the Caribbean and adjacent regions
HRC - Himalayan Regional Committee
IAEE - Internatioanl Association of Earthquake Engineering
IAGA - International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
IAPSO - International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean
IASPEI - International Association for Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior
IAVCEI - International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth' s Interior
ICE - Igneous Crustal Extension
ICESA - International Commission for Earth Sciences in Africa
ICDP - International Continental Scientific Drilling Program
ICL - Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere
ICSU - International Council of Scientific Unions
ICTP - International Centre for Theoretical Physics
IDNDR - International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
IfAG - Institute für Angewandte Geodaesie
IGBP - International Geosphere Biosphere Program
IGC - International Geological Congress
IGCP - International Geological Correlation Programme
IGS - International GPS Service for Geodynamics
IIEES - International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
ILP - International Lithosphere Program
INDEPTH II - International Deep Profiling of Tibet and the Himalaya
ING - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica
IODP - Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
IRIS - Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
IRRS - Instituto per la Ricerca sul Rischio Sismico, Milan
ISC - International Seismological Centre
ITBD - Intraplate Tectonics and Basin Dynamics
ITRF - International Terrestrial Reference Frame
ITRS - International Terrestrial Reference System
IUGG - International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences
JGR - Journal of Geophysical Research
JOI - Joint Oceanographic Institutions
JIPE - Joint Institutes of Physics of the Earth, Moscow
KMS - Kort-og Matrikelstyrel-sen
KRISP - Kenya Rift International Seismic Project
KSZ - Kapuskasing Structural Zone
KTB - German deep drilling program
LEPLAC - Brazilian Continental-Shelf Survey Program
MEMSAC - Mega Earth Mobile Seismic Array Consortium
MGMR - Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources
MLP - Multilayer perceptrons
MONA LISA - Marine and Onshore North Sea Acquisition for Lithospheric Seismic Analysis
MULTIER - Multisphere Interaction Evolution and Rhythm
NAD - Nansen Arctic Drilling Program
NAO - North Atlantic Oscillation
NAGRA - National Association for Disposal of Radioactive Waste
NEIC - US National Earthquake Information Centre
NGRI - National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad
NSERC - Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
NSF - National Science Foundation
NVR - Near Vertical Reflection
ODP - Ocean Drilling Program
OGS - Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale, Trieste
OSO - Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
PAIGH - Pan-American Institute of Geography and History
PANCARDI - Pannonian-Carpathian-Dinaride system
PILOTO - GSHAP program of seismic hazard mapping for the Andean region
PRAISE - Peace River Arch Industry Seismic Reflection Experiment
PRARE - Precise Range and Range Rate Equipement
RADIUS - Risk Assessmentand Diagnosis of Urban Areas against Seismic Disasters project
RELEMR - Reduction of Earthquake Losses in the Eastern Mediterranean (UNESCO, USGS)
RIAO - Royal Institute and Army Observatory of Spain
SAGA - South American Geodynamics Activities
SAR - Synthetic Aperture Radar
SELF - Sea Level Fluctuations
SESAME - UNESCO/IGCP Seismotectonic and Seizmic Hazard Assess. of the Mediterranian
SIRGAS - Sistema de Referencia Geocentrico para America del Sur (South American Geocentric Reference System)
SLR - Satellite Laser Ranging
SCL - Scientific Committee on the Litosphere
SSA - Seismological Society of America
SSB - State Seismological Bureau, Beijing
STC - Scientific Technical Committee
STEND - System for Technology Exchange for Natural Disasters
SUDS - Seismic Uniform Data System
SVEKALAPKO - Svecofennian-Karelian-Lapland-Kola transect
TESZ - Trans-European Suture Zone
TGBM - Tide-Gauge Bench Mark
THOT - Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect
TOR - Teleseismic tomography experiment across the Tornquist zone
TPB - Timan-Pechor-Barents Sea project
UAG - Geodesical Applications Unity
U & V - Uralides and Variscides
UGM - Union Geofisica Mexicana
UHPM - Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism
UN - United Nations
UNAM - National University of Mexico
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNDP - United Nation Developement Program
UNU - United Nations University
URSEIS - Ural Reflection Seismic Experimental Integrated Studies
USGC - United States Geodynamics Committee
USGS - United States Geological Survey
VLBI - Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VSEGEI - All Russian Scientific Research Geological Institute
WDC - World Data Center (system)
WEEGP - West and East European Gravity Project
WFEO - World Federation of Engineering Organizations
WHAT A CAT - Western Hellenic Arc and Trench and Calabrian Arc and Trench Project
WMO - World Meteorological Organization
WMS - World Stress Map
WPRO/WHO - Western Pacific Region Office/World Health Organization
WSSI - World Seismic Safety Initiative
WVR - Water Vapor Radiometers
WWW - World Wide Web 
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