1 August GEOSS Meeting The European-Mediterranean Experience in Monitoring System of Systems and Integrated Products R. Bossu (1) and T. Van Eck (2) (1)European–Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) (2)Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology (ORFEUS)

2 August GEOSS Meeting Objectives of the presentation Present the experience of the Euro-Med seismological community in the framework of GMES and GEOSS –EMSC & ORFEUS organisations and roles Overview of EMSC products and services

3 August GEOSS Meeting Federation of efforts and initiatives in the Euro-Med 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; Complementary scientific activities: –EMSC: Rapid earthquake information, Euro-Med alert system (operational activities) and seismological bulletin; promote cooperation and research –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, IR…)

4 August GEOSS Meeting Global and European collaboration IASPEI (global) International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth ESC (EuroMed) European Seismological Commission FDSN (global) Federation of Digital Seism. Networks ORFEUS (EuroMed) Obs. and Research Facilities for European Seismology EMSC (EuroMed) European Mediterranean Seismological Center Board of Directors Executive Committee Participants Assembly of all members Coordination bureau Executive Council

5 August GEOSS Meeting EMSC Created in 1975 by the ESC to rapidly locate earthquakes 2005: 71 institutes and observatories as members in 46 countries Collaboration with more than 100 institutes

6 August GEOSS Meeting A System of Systems for Real Time Information Net. Database Alert System (Manual) Web Site, Imode, WAP, RSS Additional Data: Moment tensors, field observations, Damage reports Automatic Locations (MIX) AutoDRM Public Information Eur. CPU, CoE, OCHA, ECHO, MSF EADRCC, rescue teams…) s Fax, SMS, Authoritativeness (QDM)

7 August GEOSS Meeting Coordination with national seismic services 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

8 August GEOSS Meeting Contributing stations 1,200 stations 52 networks 8 to 10,000 events located / yr Occurrence of an earthquake confirmed within 8 to 12 min (preliminary info) Manual location: Within 40 min (M≥5) Following working day for all events

9 August GEOSS Meeting Real Time Earthquake Information 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 5,700 end-users of the alert system

10 August GEOSS Meeting New service: Automatic determination of the felt area ML 5.0 France Mw 6.5 Morocco mb 5.1 Slovenia Mw 6.0 Romania mb 5.0 Kaliningrad mb 5.3 Italymb 5.1 Germany Sumatra Mw 7.2 California Time variations to determine when information is needed! Variations in geographical origin to rapidly determine the felt area

11 August GEOSS Meeting Variations in time: Slovenia, July 2004, mb 5.1 Earthquake occurrence: 15:04 Beginning of traffic increase: 15:08 Ten-fold increase

12 August GEOSS Meeting Romania, October 2004, Mw 6.0 Earthquake occurrence: 22:34 Beginning of traffic increase: 22:41 Twenty-fold increase

13 August GEOSS Meeting Romania, June 2005, mb 5.2 Earthquake occurrence: 17:16 Beginning of traffic increase: 17:20 Twelve-fold increase

14 August GEOSS Meeting Extraction of the felt area: Romania June 2005, 30 min before

15 August GEOSS Meeting Extraction of the felt area: Romania June 2005, 5 min after

16 August GEOSS Meeting Extraction of the felt area: Romania June 2005, 10 min after

17 August GEOSS Meeting Extraction of the felt area: Romania June 2005, 15 min after

18 August GEOSS Meeting Extraction of the felt area: Romania June 2005, 30 min after

19 August GEOSS Meeting Extraction of the felt area: Romania June 2005, 30 min to 60 after

20 August GEOSS Meeting Euro-Med Bulletin Collect and associate all available arrival times and locations, locate and validate Reproduce the provided bulletins within each network while improving locations in border regions and off- shore 62 contributing networks with 1,700 stations Phase association (30,000 events, 5 millions arrival times database) Improve data availability Production within 3 months (target) Coordinated with ISC Validation of the bulletin by the network operators themselves!

21 August GEOSS Meeting Inventory of Accelerometric Networks Accelerometric data (especially but not exclusively, strong motion data) rare and high scientific value ! Initiate rapid data exchange of spectral coordinates Comprehensive inventory of accelerometric networks Strong willingness to collaborate and provide data access! Special issue of EMSC Newsletter to be published

22 August GEOSS Meeting Improving cooperation RELEMR (UNESCO/USGS): Role of 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

23 August GEOSS Meeting Concluding remarks Long experience in the Euro-Med region to develop and operate integrated services Integration of existing infrastructures in composite monitoring systems is cost-efficient and it ensures participation from the whole community Coordination of international initiatives with national actors is essential! The Euro-Med experience is being strengthen by NERIES (NEtwork of Research Infrastructure for European Seismology), a large EC-funded project jointly initiated by ORFEUS and EMSC