Rapid data integration in Europe:EC-projects MEREDIAN and NERIES

Torild van Eck (ORFEUS) Winfried Hanka (ORFEUS/GEOFON)Domenico Giardini (ORFEUS/ETHZ)

Addressing an infrastructure challenge in Europe: Archival and availability of all seismological data gathered by observatories and research facilities

in Europe and its surroundings.

New web site: www.orfeus-eu.org

Global and European collaboration in earthquake monitoring

IASPEI (global)International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth

ESC (EuroMed)European Seismological Commission

FDSN (global)Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks

ORFEUS (EuroMed)Observatories and Research Facilities

for European Seismology

EMSC (EuroMed)European Mediterranean

Seismological Center

Board of DirectorsExecutive Committee

Participants

Assembly of all membersCoordination bureau

Executive Council

Europe: waveform data

>100 Seismological Observatoria in Europe and its surroundings(+ ~ 80 university and research institutes)

Instrumentation and approximate number of stations:– Broadband (BB) ~ 500 (permanent)

(not not including arrays)– Very Long Period (VLP) ~ < 40 (permanent)

and gravimeters– Short period (SP) ~ 1500 (permanent)– Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) few– Acceleration (ACC) > 1000 – Mobile BB (Germany, France, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, … )

> 300

Europe: waveform data exchange

Organisation and international agreements:• Bilateral agreements• Project based agreements

– Geofon (GFZ, Europe/Global), MedNet (INGV, EuroMed), Geoscope (IPGP, Global)

• European scale agreement– ORFEUS (Multinational funded foundation)

ORFEUS (with the FDSN) pursues free data exchange for research.

Technologies (selection):• (Near) real-time data exchange – SeedLink, Internet, VSAT,

telephone, radio-link.• FTP – based mechanisms• AutoDRM – email protocol (ETHZ)• In development and being implemented at ODC:

– WebDC (GFZ-WWW), DHI (IRIS-internet)

Europe: waveform data and funding

• National observatories (France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, UK, etc.)– Usually (semi) governmental institutions.– Funding: national national (risk) motives

• Research projects (Geoscope(F), Geofon (D), MedNet (I))– Universities and (research) organisations projects– Funding: mainly national (national) research priorities

• ORFEUS (European NGO - foundation)– BB data archiving and exchange coordination EuroMed area– Funding: Corporate founders (13) and EC projects (EU)

– EU emphasises applied research funding (security, environment)

• IRIS DMC (American NGO )– BB event data and continuous data (USA + core FDSN)– Funding: National, US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Towards a European seismological data infrastructure

EC-projects and European strategy by ORFEUS and EMSC:

Parameter and waveform data exchange (AutoDRM):EMSC & KNMI/ORFEUS: Transfrontier (1994-1997)

Automatic parameter data exchange and European alerts:EMSC & KNMI/ORFEUS: Rapid warning (1996-1998)

European unified catalogue: EMSC: EPSI (2001-2003)

Continuous RT waveform data exchange and secure archiving: ORFEUS: MEREDIAN (2000-2005)

European core of comprehensive data availability:ORFEUS & EMSC: NERIES (2006–2010)

1 Nov 2000

BB stations

BB stations

30 Apr 2005

MEREDIAN EC-projectMediterranean-European Rapid Earthquake Data Information

and Archiving Network EC-contract: EVR1-1999-00006

MEREDIAN consortium: 18 participants (national

observatories)

Coordination: Torild van Eck (ORFEUS/KNMI)

Duration: November 1, 2000 - April 30, 2005

Goal: Initialize real-time waveform data exchange in

Europeand facilitate access to archived data.

WP1: Improving and securing data archivalWP2: Improving rapid cross border data exchangeWP3: Developing a distributed European seismological archive WP4: Seismological software co-ordination

VEBSN

1 Jan 2003

1 Jan 2004

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30 Apr 2005

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MEREDIAN CONSORTIUM (18 participants)  Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) co-ordinator NLInstituto Geografico Nacional (IGN) EIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)

INational Observatory of Athens / Institute of Geodynamics (NOA-IG)

ELGeoforschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) DCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

FZentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamic (ZAMG)

AEidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)

CHNorwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR) NOEnvironmental Agency Republic Slovenia (EARS)

SIGeophysical Institute Academy of Sciences Czech Republic (IG-ASCR)

CZGeophysical Institute Slovak Academy of Sciences (GISAS)

SKNational Inst. of Research and Development for Earth Physics (NIEP)

ROGeophysical Institute Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS-GI) BGInstitute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences (IGFPAS)

PLUniversity of Malta (UOM)

MTGeological Survey of Estonia (GSE)

EEGeod. Geoph. Res. Inst. Hungarian Academy Sciences (GGRI-HAS)

HU

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130 stations: MEREDIAN consortium (18) and 18 other agencies:Geological Survey of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. Danish National Survey and Cadaster, Seismology, Copenhagen, DenmarkGeoscope, Dép. de Sismologie, Inst. de Physique du Globe, Paris, France. ReNaSS, Strasbourg/Nice/Grenoble, France. German Regional Seismograph Network, Erlangen, Germany Geophysical Institute of Israel, Lod, Israel. Ist. Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze dellla Terra, University of Trieste, Italy. Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, PortugalUniversidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Real Observatorio de la Armada, San Fernando, Spain Observatori de l'Ebre, Roquettes, SpainSwedish Defense Agency, Stockholm, Sweden. Bogazici University, Kandilli Observatory and ERI, Istanbul, Turkey. British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK.

Atomic Weapons Establishment, Seismology, Blacknest, UK IRIS/IDA network, Univ. of California, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, USA. IRIS/USGS network, USGS Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory, USA.

VEBSN contributors (April 2005)

Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology

EC-project Integrated Research Infrastructures (I3):Network Activities (8)Transnational Access (6)Joint Research Activities (5)

Goal: Integrate European seismological data and data access Coordination: Domenico Giardini (ORFEUS)Participants: ORFEUS, EMSC and

23 institutes from 13 European countriesDuration: four years; start beginning 2006 (?)

NERIES EC-project

Data – ProductsSeismological Infrastructures

PortalNA7, TA1

Direct access to infrastructures TA2-3

Research CommunityUsers – Producers

Access to specific infrastructures

TA4-5

TechnologyTransfer

NA8

Improve use ofinfrastructures

JRA4-5

New tools to improveInfrastructures and use

of data JRA1-3

Network infrastructures NA2-6

NERIES

Networking Activities (NA)NA1 – Project ManagementNA2 – Real-time data exchangeNA3 – Distributed European waveform data archiveNA4 – Distributed European historical data archiveNA5 – Improving access to accelerometer dataNA6 – Broadband OBS networkingNA7 – Portal for integrated data accessNA8 – Technology Transfer (workshops, exchange grants)

Transnational Access (TA)TA1 – European seismological data access facility (ORFEUS-EMSC)TA2 – Historical seismograms; SISMOS (INGV)TA3 – Instrumentation test facility; CONRAD (ZAMG)TA4 – Array seismology; NORSARTA5 – Verification seismology; DASETA6 – Dense broadband network seismology; SDSN/ETHZ

NERIES NERIES specifics

Joint Research Activities (JRA)JRA1 – European seismological reference modelJRA2 – Real-time hazard toolsJRA3 – Geotechnical site characterizationJRA4 – Shake-maps and rapid loss estimationJRA5 – Data mining tools

NERIES NERIES specifics

ORFEUS regional FDSN archive:distributed European waveform data archive

GFZ/GEOFON

GFZ/GEOFON