NETWORK OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES FOR EUROPEAN SEISMOLOGY (NERIES): PROGRESS OVERVIEW

NERIES (www.neries-eu.org) is a Research Infrastructure project addressing observational seismology in its broadest sense and providing opportunities far beyond the consortium members alone. Many elements within this Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) European Commission-project are currently being realized, and a wide-scale collaboration with other projects within Europe and the US has been established. This presentation will provide an overview of the current status of the project, its on-going and planned activities in 2008 and the opportunities provided.

NERIES accomplished, for example that: the VEBSN (Virtual European Broadband Seismic Network) has been extended to more then 250 broadband stations, two deep-sea OBS (Ocean Bottom Seismometers) systems have been operating in the Mediterranean for nearly one year, homogeneous shakemaps can currently be produced at several European observatories, prototypes of portal elements have been launched for broadband waveform retrieval services, earthquake parameter services, historical earthquake data, European tomography model review and site response software. Besides numerous small meetings, NERIES also organized focused workshops and meetings to promote coordination on a European scale, addressing, for example, acceleration data exchange, European observatory coordination and web application software developments, historical seismology. Grants available for European earth scientist have been provided and will be available for research visits at several institutes.

Project collaboration has been set up with, for example, the EarthScope program on web portal developments, US Geological Survey on rapid parameter exchange and shakemap developments, the GITEWS (German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System) program on waveform and parameter handling, SAFER (Seismic eArly warning For EuRope) on rapid warning, SCEP (Southern California Earthquake Center) on time varying hazard estimation and global organizations with respect to standardization of parameter exchange for web applications.

One of the goal of NERIES is to design and develop a web portal as the uppermost layer providing rendering capabilities for the underlying sets of data. The portal will offer tools and services related to earthquake data to the broad earth science community and the public. The portal is presented in a separate posters with a demonstration of the alpha version.

List of acronyms:

EMSC: Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

ETHZ: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich

GITEWS: German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System

I3: Integrated Infrastructure Initiative

NERIES: NEtwork of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology

OBS: Ocean Bottom Seismometers

ORFEUS: Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology

SAFER: Seismic eArly warning For EuRope

SCEC: Southern California Earthquake Center

VEBSN: Virtual European Broadband Seismic Network