Data Infrastructure for Seismological Research and Information in the Euro-Med Region: Current Status and Future Strategy

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Data Infrastructure for Seismological Research
and Information in the Euro-Med Region Current
Status and Future Strategy

• R. Bossu (1), T. Van Eck (2) and D. Giardini (2)
• EuropeanMediterranean Seismological Centre
  (EMSC)
• Observatories and Research Facilities for
  EUropean Seismology (ORFEUS). www.orfeus-eu.org
• www.emsc-csem.org

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Objectives of the presentation

• Present the experience of the Euro-Med
  seismological community in the framework of
  IGOS/GMES/GEOSS
• The Euro-Med experience based on
• Existing nationally/locally owned infrastructures
  (composite system)
• Shared expertise
• Capacity building
• Mutual benefits
• A bottom-up process initiated and defined by the
  seismological community
• Federative role
• Interface/interlocutors for the European
  Commission and international initiatives

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Euro-Med Context

• Challenges
• Many political borders
• Countries related by complex historical
  relationships (e.g., former Yugoslavia, Middle
  East)
• Incentives for Integration
• Hazard does not conform to borders
• Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
• EU political integration (context, funding and
  policy implementation)

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Current Situation

• Two complementary Euro/Euro-Med organisations in
  seismology
• The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre
  (EMSC)
• The Observatories and Research Facilities for
  EUropean Seismology (ORFEUS)
• Both are non-profit NGO created, funded (quota
  per institutes or per country) and governed by
  the seismological community Also, aim at
  improving collaboration and research
• Complementary scientific activities
• EMSC Rapid earthquake monitoring, earthquake
  information, Euro-Med seismological bulletin
  (operational activities)
• ORFEUS Real time BB waveform data availability,
  archiving and coordination
• They jointly play a federative role at European
  level and contribute to international initiatives
  and/or organisations (GMES, GEOSS, FDSN)

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Global and European collaboration
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EMSC

• Created in 1975 by the ESC
• 2004 65 institutes as members in 41 countries
• 2005 6 new members in Malta, Poland, Spain,
  Tunisia, Ukraine, Yemen
• Collaboration with more than 100 institutes
• Station book maintenance with ISC and NEIC

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Why an Euro-Med Alert System?

• Redundancy Back-up and independent estimates
• Information outside the affected
  country/countries
• Unprecedented earthquake difficult to deal with
• The info from the national network may not be
  available (e.g. communication pbs)
• Earthquakes in border regions and off-shore
• Unique source of information for European /
  International organisations

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A composite system
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Database
Filter
Alert System (Manual)
Automatic Locations (MIX)
AutoDRM
Emails
Fax, SMS, Email
Additional Data
Web Site
Alert (CPA, Council of Europe, ECHO, EADRCC)
Public Information
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Contributing stations

• 1,200 stations
• 52 networks
• 8 to 10,000 events located / yr
• Existence of an earthquake within 8 to 15 min
• Manually reviewed loc within 40 min.

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Real Time Earthquake Information

• 5,000 end-users of the alert system
• Dynamic page updated every min
• Additional data Moment Tensors, field reports,
  PGA
• Special pages (e.g. Boumerdes, Bam, Kaliningrad,
  Sumatra)
• 150,000 200,000 hits/day

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Euro-Med Bulletin

• Reproduce the provided bulletins within each
  network while improving it in border region and
  off-shore
• Production within 3 months (target)
• Phase association (5 millions arrival times
  database)
• Improve data availability
• Coordinated with ISC (350 new stations)
• 62 contributing networks with 1,700 stations

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Inventory of Accelerometric Networks

• Accelerometric data (especially but not
  exclusively, strong motion data) rare and high
  scientific value !
• Comprehensive inventory of accelerometric
  networks
• Strong willingness to collaborate and provide
  data access!
• Special issue of EMSC Newsletter to be published
  soon

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Improving cooperation

• RELEMR (UNESCO) Scientific coordination since
  1993
• Earthquake and Earthquake Risk in Western Med
  (EC-funded)
• Coordination of seismological networks in Western
  Med
• Improving seismological networks and Earthquake
  Preparedness, in SE-Europe

Meetings of SE-European Seismologists, Ig,
Slovenia, November 2003
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Towards a Euro-Med seismological data
infrastructure

• Main EC-projects and Euro-Med strategy by
  EMSC/ORFEUS
• Parameter and waveform data exchange (AutoDRM)
• EMSC KNMI/ORFEUS Transfrontier (1994-1997)
• Automatic data exchange and European alerts
• EMSC KNMI/ORFEUS Rapid warning (1996-1998)
• European unified catalogue
• EMSC EPSI (1998-2000)
• Continuous RT waveform data exchange and secure
  archiving
• ORFEUS MEREDIAN (2000-2003 2003-2005)
• European core of comprehensive data availability
• ORFEUS EMSC NERIES (20062010) ?

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EC-proposal European Research Area NERIES
Network of Research Infrastructures for European
Seismology
EC-proposal Integrated Infrastructures
(I3) Network Activities (8) Transnational
Access (6) Joint Research Activities (5)
Coordination Domenico Giardini
(ORFEUS) Participants ORFEUS, EMSC and 23
institutes from 13 European countries Duration 4
years. Budget 12-15M Submitted 3/3/2005 within
the FP6 programme infrastructures Status
26/6/2005 Evaluation passed (17.7 points out of
20)
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Permanent Seismic stations in and around Europe
SP-stations red BB-stations blue
Source ORFEUS WG1 (BB) EMSC (SP)
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NERIES
Research Community Users Producers
New tools to improve Infrastructures and use of
data JRA1-3
Portal NA7, TA1
Direct access to infrastructures TA2-3
Data Products Seismological Infrastructures
Access to specific infrastructures TA4-5
Technology Transfer NA8
Improve use of infrastructures JRA4-5
Network infrastructures NA2-6
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NERIES
NERIES specifics
Networking Activities (NA) NA1 Project
Management NA2 Real-time data exchange NA3
Distributed European waveform data archive NA4
Distributed European historical data archive NA5
Improving access to accelerometer data NA6
Broadband OBS networking NA7 Portal for
integrated data access NA8 Technology Transfer
(workshops, exchange grants) Transnational
Access (TA) TA1 European seismological data
access facility (ORFEUS-EMSC) TA2 Historical
seismograms SISMOS (INGV) TA3 Instrumentation
test facility CONRAD (ZAMG) TA4 Array
seismology NORSAR TA5 Verification seismology
DASE TA6 Dense broadband network seismology
SDSN/ETHZ
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NERIES
NERIES specifics
Joint Research Activities (JRA) JRA1 European
seismological Reference model JRA2 Real-time
hazard tools JRA3 Geotechnical site
characterization JRA4 Shake-maps and rapid loss
estimation JRA5 Data mining tools Joint
EMSC-ORFEUS meeting, Sept. 8-9, Paris, online
registration
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Concluding remarks

• Existing infrastructures in the Euro-Med region
• More than 100 observatories and Institutes
• Between 2,000 and 2,500 SP
• 500 permanent BB installed or being installed
  (130 connected)
• 3,200 accelerometric stations, 1,000 more planned
• Connecting existing infrastructures
• Cost effective
• Ensure participation and use by the
  local/national actors
• Help in the definition and dissemination of
  standards and protocols
• Role in capacity building
• Still a long way to go before reaching the level
  of integration of the meteorological community!