ORFEUS, EMSC and NERIES: Coordinating European data exchange and archiving Torild van Eck and Remy Bossu Addressing a European infrastructure challenge: Archival and availability of seismological data gathered by observatories and research facilities in Europe and its surroundings

ORFEUS: Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology [European NGO] staff hosted by KNMI, Netherlands. EMSC: European Mediterranean Seismological Center [European NGO] staff hosted by CEA/LDG, France. NERIES: Network of Research Infrastructures in Earthquake Seismology [EC FP6 - Research Infrastructure project] [25 participants; 13 countries; coordinator ORFEUS Domenico Giardini] GITEWS: German – Indian Ocean Tsunami Early Warning System [GFZ project] Current European organizations and some relevant infrastructure projects

IUGG / IASPEI (Global) International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth ESC (EuroMed) European Seismological Commission FDSN (global) International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (EuroMed) Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology (EuroMed) European Mediterranean Seismological Center Board of Directors Executive Committee Participants Assembly of all members Coordination bureau Executive Council GEO - Group on Earth Observations European and global coordination in earthquake seismology

European organizations: ORFEUS ORFEUS, founded in 1987, is the non-profit foundation that aims at co-ordination and promoting digital, broadband (BB) seismology in the European-Mediterranean area. Pragmatics, ORFEUS priorities: -Gathering and archiving waveform data for and from observatories and making this available to the research community -Coordination actions (workshops, meetings, web site, newsletter, documentation, information, facilitating software access, inventories, etc.) -Pursuing international funding, specifically EC projects (currently in coordination with EMSC) Consequence, ORFEUS ExeCom and participants represents and serves largely the research community.

European organizations: EMSC Pragmatics; EMSC priorities: -Gathering and combining parameter data from observatories and making this (rapidly) available to the European- Mediterranean community. -Providing a European-Mediterranean earthquake information service. -Pursuing international funding (in coordination with ORFEUS). Consequence: EMSC General Assembly largely consists of the European- Mediterranean observatory community EMSC serves both the observatory community, the general public and disaster management community.

Euro-Med Seismological Centre: EMSC Non-profit NGO created by ESC in 1975 to rapidly locate earthquakes Created, funded and governed by the seismological community 76 institutes in 49 countries as members in pending applications in 2008 Main Activities: –Earthquake Alert and Rapid Earthquake Information; –Euro-Med Bull; –Improve collaboration with Northern Africa & Middle East –Participation in international initiatives: GEO, GMES

Alert Service and Rapid Earthquake Info (REI) Composite services based on the integration of data from 61 networks (44 countries) and 1,850 stations worldwide Alert Service (operational support from LDG and IGN): –Deals with potentially damaging events (M>5 Euro-Med, M>6 Continental Asia, M>7 worldwide) –Manually reviewed info rapidly disseminated (fax, SMS, ) REI for all earthquakes –information available on the web site (+ RSS, WAP, I-Mode) –Manually reviewed during working hours 2007: – located events –180 events by the Alert service 1,500 Euro-Med contributing stations

Evolutions des performances Nb messages - Nb stations Euro-Med Worldwide events ; Euro-Med Events Unique daily visitors – ENS users Dissemination time ; triggering time

Detecting felt events from variations of web traffic Minutes from the event’s occurrence

Euro-Med bulletin Comprehensive data collection (3 missing networks identified) Available Jan 1998-Dec 2007 for the next ESC meeting (Sept)

NERIES EC Research Infrastructure Project Integrated Infrastructure Implementation (I3) Coordination: ORFEUS – Domenico Giardini Management: KNMI – Torild van Eck Participants: ORFEUS, EMSC and 23 other European Institutes Largest EC earth science project up to present. Coordinating impact within Europe and Cooperation with major projects in the US Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Seismology

Infrastructure Networking Real-time data exchange (ORFEUS/Dost) Distributed European waveform data archive (GFZ/Hanka) Distributed European historical data archive (INGV/Stucchi) Access to European accelerometer data (ICC/Roca) Broadband OBS networking (IPGP/Singh) Portal and data services (EMSC/Bossu) Technology Transfer (workshops, grants) (KNMI/van Eck) Infrastructure Research European seismological reference model (INGV/Morelli) Real-time hazard tools (ETHZ/Wiemer) Shake-maps and rapid loss estimation (Kandilli/Erdik) Geotechnical site characterization (LGIT/Bard) New approaches to data mining (UnLiverpool/Rietbrock) Infrastructure Access (grants) Dense broadband network seismology SDSN/ETHZ (Christofferson) Verification seismology CEA/DASE (Guilbert) Historical seismograms SISMOS (INGV/Ferrari) Array seismology NORSAR (Schweitzer) Instrumentation test facility CONRAD (ZAMG/Lenhardt) NERIES: > 17 Activities

Seismological data to be archived and made accessible: BB waveform data (format standard SEED) Earthquake parameter data (format standard QuakeML) Acceleration data (format standard to be developed) Historical earthquake data (standard database to be developed) Scanned historical seismograms (SISMOS) 4-6 OBS deployments Infrastructure components: European data access portal consisting of portlets European distributed waveform data archive (EIDA) (Software) tools: European reference model European shakemaps Time varying seismic hazard maps Site response software toolbox NERIES: selection of deliverables

NERIES accelerometric data archiving and exchange NA5 Total: 3,868 stations 1,402 free field 1,905 on struct 233 on dam 20 boreholes

Seismograph stations in Europe Short period and Broadband

Virtual European Broadband Seismic Network The VEBSN concept The VEBSN: consists of a pool of broadband seismograph stations, the data of which is shared in (near) real-time by European seismological observatories. data is shared on the basis of the VEBSN statement of operation. is the efficient vehicle to gather and archive data for scientific research. data backup is secured in the European Integrated Data Archive, pragmatically the European regional FDSN archive.

1 Jan 2003 VEBSN Virtual European Broadband Seismograph Network (VEBSN)

1 Jan 2004 VEBSN Virtual European Broadband Seismograph Network (VEBSN)

30 Apr 2005 VEBSN Virtual European Broadband Seismograph Network (VEBSN)

30 Jan 2007 VEBSN Virtual European Broadband Seismograph Network (VEBSN)

1 Mar 2008 VEBSN Virtual European Broadband Seismograph Network (VEBSN)

Virtual European Broadband Seismograph Network (VEBSN) 1 June 2008 VEBSN

1 Mar 2008 Currently Operational BB stations

Exchange of waveform data in the European-Mediterranean area Some on-going discussions: interests networks  research communities Real-time data exchange Required for quick locations, tsunami warning NEAMTWS, shakemaps, etc. Network sensitivities: finances and public information Minor modification of ‘Statement of Operation’ discussed [Italy – Greece] Near real-time data exchange (Only) efficient way for long-term data archiving for research purposes Research priorities: unified easy access Currently, most networks agree, occasionally delay’s are discussed Research community Requests all data and all in real-time. Notably IRIS policy! Can contribute with ‘added value’ tools for improvement of network performance. (rapid magnitude, Moment tensors, shakemaps, location, …) Network interests + research results  improved network performance.

European Integrated Data Center (EIDAC) Communication Model (NA3) Currently, first test version between GFZ and ODC

NERIES Portlet: prototype ‘seismicity’

NERIES Portlet: prototype ‘waveform (BB) data’

decadesyears days seconds Early Warning Long-Term Forecasting Short-Term Forecasting Long-term Hazard mapping ShakeMaps & Rapid Loss Assessment 0 days Earthquake seconds JRA2. Real Time Hazard Tools Coordination NERIES-SAFER-SCEP: Temporal Scales years Aftershock Hazard JRA2 WP5 WP2 CSEP NERIES JRA3

European shakemap implementation in collaboration with the USGS JRA3 Shakemap example implementation in California Current existing implementations in Europe: INGV ETHZ KOERI NORSAR NIEP

NERIES and ORFEUS: upcoming meetings Planned meetings and sessions: June 19-20, ORFEUS workshop ‘Waveform Inversion’, Utrecht University, The Netherlands June 31 – July 2, NERIES annual meeting, De Bilt, The Netherlands. September 9-10, NERIES presentations ESC General Assembly, Crete Preliminary plans 2008/2009: Autumn NERIES software developments workshop. May ORFEUS annual observatory coordination meeting. Autumn 2008 – Spring 2009 NERIES activity meetings Joint meetings (NERIES) with other projects SHAPE, SAFER, NATO, Balkan, …

NERIES: Promotes networking of earthquake data providers and users. Pursues active cooperation with related projects Provides facility access grants for EU scientists/groups. Workshops and meetings are open. Developed software in public domain (GNU license) ORFEUS complements with limited small scale support. NERIES: Opportunities beyond the consortium NERIES: The first infrastructure step towards an European Plate Observatory System. NERIES e-science developments in collaboration with similar developments in the US (EarthScope). NERIES builds on a long-standing global data exchange agreements and formats in seismological earthquake data.

EPOS European Plate Observing System RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND E-SCIENCE FOR DATA AND OBSERVATORIES ON EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, SURFACE DYNAMICS AND TECTONICS Seismic Hazard Map

EPOS: spatial and temporal scales Lab-seismology--geodesy--geology M. Cocco

U EPOS: Necessary e-Infrastructure E-Infrastructure for data access and analysis Data centres Model libraries Simulation Processing Visualisation libraries Model, Data, Processing, Visualization Assembly Access Users H. Igel