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

www.neries-eu.orgwww.orfeus-eu.orgwww.emsc-csem.org

ORFEUS: www.orfeus-eu.org/Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology[European NGO] staff hosted by KNMI, Netherlands.

EMSC: www.emsc-csem.orgEuropean Mediterranean Seismological Center[European NGO] staff hosted by CEA/LDG, France.

NERIES: www.neries-eu.orgNetwork of Research Infrastructures in Earthquake Seismology[EC FP6 - Research Infrastructure project] [25 participants;13 countries; coordinator ORFEUS Domenico Giardini]

GITEWS: www.gitews.orgGerman – 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) InternationalFederation of Digital Seismograph Networks

(EuroMed)Observatories and Research

Facilities for European Seismology

(EuroMed) European Mediterranean

Seismological Center

Board of DirectorsExecutive 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 communityEMSC 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 2007 + 5 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, email)

• REI for all earthquakes– information available on the web site

(+ RSS, WAP, I-Mode)– Manually reviewed during working

hours• 2007:

– 16 000 located events – 180 events by the Alert service

1,500 Euro-Med contributing stations

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

NERIESEC Research Infrastructure Project Integrated

Infrastructure Implementation (I3)

Coordination: ORFEUS – Domenico GiardiniManagement: KNMI – Torild van EckParticipants: ORFEUS, EMSC and 23 other European InstitutesLargest 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 Seismologywww.neries-eu.org

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

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Virtual European Broadband Seismic NetworkThe 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.

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Exchange of waveform data in the European-Mediterranean area

Some on-going discussions: interests networks research communities

Real-time data exchangeRequired for quick locations, tsunami warning NEAMTWS, shakemaps, etc.Network sensitivities: finances and public informationMinor modification of ‘Statement of Operation’ discussed [Italy – Greece]

Near real-time data exchange(Only) efficient way for long-term data archiving for research purposesResearch priorities: unified easy accessCurrently, most networks agree, occasionally delay’s are discussed

Research communityRequests 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’

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JRA2. Real Time Hazard Tools Coordination NERIES-SAFER-SCEP: Temporal Scales

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NERIES JRA3

European shakemap implementation in collaboration with the USGS

JRA3Shakemap example

implementation in California

Current existingimplementations

in Europe:INGVETHZ

KOERINORSAR

NIEP

NERIES and ORFEUS: upcoming meetings

Planned meetings and sessions:• June 19-20, 2008. ORFEUS workshop ‘Waveform Inversion’,

Utrecht University, The Netherlands• June 31 – July 2, 2008. NERIES annual meeting,

De Bilt, The Netherlands.• September 9-10, 2008. NERIES presentations

ESC General Assembly, Crete

Preliminary plans 2008/2009:• Autumn 2008. NERIES software developments workshop.• May 2009. 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.

http://www.neries-eu.org

EPOS European Plate Observing System

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND E-SCIENCE FOR DATA AND OBSERVATORIES ON

EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, SURFACE DYNAMICS

AND TECTONICS

Seismic Hazard MapSeismic Hazard Map

EPOS: spatial and temporal scales

Lab-seismology--geodesy--geology

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EPOS: Necessary e-Infrastructure

E-Infrastructure for data access and analysis

Data centres Model libraries

Simulation Processing

Visualisationlibraries

Model, Data, Processing,

Visualization Assembly

Access

Users Users

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