This window supplies the main geometric and kinematic parameters of the source, such as its location, length, width, strike, dip and rake, and informs about the evidence that was used by the compiler to constrain them.

This window provides the available information and hypotheses concerning the seismic behaviour of the selected source. The parameters shown in this window were either derived from published material or inferred from it or from other lines of evidence, in which case it is implied that they were calculated or hypothesised by the compilers. Significant parameters include: the date of the most recent strong earthquake associated with the source, the corresponding elapsed time, the average recurrence interval, the slip-rate and the average dislocation per event.

This window contains a number of summaries of papers dealing with the identification and characterisation of the selected source, with reference both to its geologic evidence and to the associated seismicity. This section gives the reader the opportunity to evaluate the level at which the source has been studied by specialists and provides an overview of data and approaches that have been used to identify and characterise the source.

This window contains a list of references to publications dealing with the seismic source or with the region surrounding it

This window presents descriptions and comments concerning what the compiler has (or has not) found in the literature, the main conclusions, the most debated points and the questions that remain open. Unlike the "Summaries of the main studies" window, where the previous works are simply presented and summarised objectively, this section is entirely based on personal judgement. As such it forms the "core" of the analysis and the starting point for further investigations.

An iconographical collection (drawings and photographs) associated with a given source. The images are either original (i.e., prepared by the compilers of the Database) or taken from significant published papers.