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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Total: 3,868 stations
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Seismograph stations in EuropeShort period and Broadband
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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Early Warning
Long-TermForecasting
Short-TermForecasting
Long-termHazard mapping
ShakeMaps &Rapid Loss Assessment
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JRA2. Real Time Hazard Tools Coordination NERIES-SAFER-SCEP: Temporal Scales
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Aftershock Hazard
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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
M. Cocco
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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
H. Igel