HR: 1340h
AN: S53A-1021    [Abstracts]
TI: Toward a Euro Mediterranean Tsunami Warning System: the Case of the February 12, 2007 Ml=6.1 Earthquake.
AU: * Scognamiglio, L
EM: scognamiglio@ingv.it
AF: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata, 605, Rome, Ita 00143, Italy
AU: Olivieri, M
EM: olivieri@ingv.it
AF: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata, 605, Rome, Ita 00143, Italy
AB: UNESCO has committed the scientific community for the creation of the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean Tsunami Warning System (NEAMTWS). We wonder: "Is the European Seismological community ready for running a Euro Mediterranean Tsunami Warning System?" In this study we use the February 12, 2007 Ml=6.1 earthquake, occurred close to the epicenter of the 1755 Great Lisbon one, as a case study to verify/discuss our actual capability of alerting for a hypothetical tsunami coming. Starting from the data availability and the available real-time tools, we emulate an automatic real-time processing to perform the source analyses needed for discriminating a tsunamigenic earthquake, and subsequently we evaluate the time shift between the release of results and the potential tsunami wavefront reaching the coasts.
DE: 4564 Tsunamis and storm surges
DE: 6309 Decision making under uncertainty
DE: 7215 Earthquake source observations (1240)
DE: 7294 Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025)
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting