HR: 1340h
AN: S13C-1433    [Abstracts]
TI: Status of the SAFER Project (Seismic eArly warning For EuRope)
AU: * Zschau, J
EM: zschau@gfz-potsdam.de
AF: Section 2.1 Earthquake Risk and Early Warning, GeoForschungsZentrum, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
AU: Gasparini, P
EM: paolo.gasparini@na.infn.it
AF: AMRA Scarl, Via Nuova Agnano, 11, Naples, 80125, Italy
AU: Papadopoulos, G
EM: papadop@gein.noa.gr
AF: Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens, Thissio, Athens, 11810, Greece
AB: Since July 2006, the SAFER (Seismic eArly warning For EuRope) Project, a European Commission funded Specific Targeted Research or Innovation Project, has coordinated efforts to develop methodologies for the mitigation of the effects of earthquakes in and around Europe. SAFER aims to develop new methodologies, and expand upon existing ones for a range of actions that will respond to the consequences of damaging earthquakes. The time span over which such actions will take place extends from the earliest detection of the first seismic waves to tens of minutes after the main earthquake has finished, and to days and weeks afterwards so as to consider the subsequent aftershocks. The sort of actions envisaged to be developed by SAFER include the detection and analysis of the first P-wave arrivals, decision- making processes (i.e. is the earthquake potentially dangerous or not), the issuing (or not) of alarms, instigating safety measures for buildings, industrial processes and lifelines, and predictions of possible secondary effects such as landslides and subsequent aftershocks. It is the intention of this poster to present an overview of SAFER, some of the preliminary results and the expected products. This will include detection and analysis algorithms, new ways of optimising seismic networks, utilization of the USGS ShakeMap program, and predictive tools of aftershock hazard.
DE: 7212 Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology
DE: 7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction (1217, 1242)
DE: 7294 Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025)
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting