The file contains the background documents for the exploratory meeting on involvement of the ESF in the establishment of a European Seismological Data Centre (Future of Seismology in Europe): final draft of the Observatories and Research Facilities of European Seismology (ORFEUS) science plan (10/1985) and final plan (1986), proposals among other from the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (Strasbourg), draft report on behalf of the European Geophysical Society's working Group on Broad-band Seismometry, article "A Data Collection Strategy for the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory", correspondence, preliminary enquiry, documentation on the ORFEUS such as its organisational structure, minutes of meeting; draft minutes, note, recommendations and list of participants of the exploratory meeting on the future of Seismology in Europe held in Strasbourg 12-13/06/1986.

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