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SISMA Seismic Information System for Monitoring and Alert

Università di Milano. Coupling geophysical modelling and geodesy to unravel the physics of active faults. SISMA Seismic Information System for Monitoring and Alert. Galileian Plus Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Milano, Italy Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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SISMA Seismic Information System for Monitoring and Alert

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  1. Università di Milano Coupling geophysical modelling and geodesy to unravel the physics of active faults SISMA Seismic Information System for Monitoring and Alert Galileian Plus Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Milano, Italy Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Trieste, Italy Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Sezione Osservazione della Terra

  2. SISMA: a new approach towards the understanding of earthquake generation and seismic hazard mitigation. It builds over three major concepts: taking advantage of the new generation of DINSAR and GPS deformation data at the Earth’s surface, in conjunction with seismic flow monitoring which in turn allow us building an integrated geophysical, geodetic and seismological scheme to disclose stress build up within the gouge of seismic active faults for a deterministic approach of earthquake cycle description which in turn allows us overcoming the obvious shortcomings of the old approach to seismic hazard mitigation based on a purely probabilistic approach

  3. SISMA Overall Schema 1° level 2° level 3° level

  4. Acquisition of the historical SAR images of the area. Establishment of a local network of GPS Receivers For geodynamic purpose Near Real Time GPS processing to retrieve continuously updated deformation and velocity maps Near Real Time SAR Data processing to retrieve continuously updated deformation Restrained areas for GPS and SAR NRT Geophysical Forward modeling Seismicity Analysis Permanent GPS Evaluation of seismic hazard

  5. Maps of alerted areas, prone to earthquake events with given magnitude, will be obtained through comparison of non-EO information, provided by seismological data analysis, and taking into account results provided by Geophysical Modeling based on EO information; • EO observations, consisting of GPS and DinSAR images, will permit to draw deformation maps on the surface; • Stress maps at the depth of the active faults will be obtained through integration of EO geodetic information into Geophysical Forward Modeling.

  6. EO Data in Near-Real-Time Applications GPS DinSAR Geophysical Modeling NRT application in alerted areas Strain-rate and stress maps at local and national scale

  7. Which is the contribution of Earth Observations? • Inter- and pre-seismic phases: monitoring of surface deformation, which is a possible indicator of stress build up on faults • Co-seismic phase: improves the understanding of the process taking place along the fault plane and permits the estimation of the interactions between the stress field (modified after the seismic event) and the nearby faults. • Post-seismic phase: monitoring possible phenomena (e.g. after-slip, post-seismic relaxation) that may affect the stress field in the lithosphere

  8. Three seismogenic zones, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Umbria-Marche Pollino (Calabria) are test sites for SISMA These active seismogenic zones are embedded within the diffuse plate boundary between Africa and Eurasia, in the central Mediterranean

  9. SISMA National scale

  10. Africa-Eurasia relative motion from paleomagnetic data (NUVEL-1A)

  11. Seismicity (Ms, NEIC 1903-1999) and calculated seismic strain rate

  12. GPS DATA Comparison between predicted crust and lithosphere deformation patterns and GPS data to verify the feasibility of seismic hazard mitigation: baseline variations Marotta, A. M. et al., JGR 2004 – Combined effects of tectonics and glacial isostatic adjustment on intraplate deformation in central and northern Europe: Application to Geodetic baseline analysis.

  13. Horizontal principal strain rate tensor Model B: active convergence + subduction forces in the Hellenic (deepslab) and Calabrian arcs Jimenez-Munt, I. et al., (2003) Active deformation in the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Anatolia inferred from numerical modeling and Geodetic and seismological data

  14. 2003.5-2004 2004-2004.5 2004.5-2005 2006.5-2007 CNalgorithm Times of Increased Probability for the occurrence of events with M>Mo within the monitored regions M8S algorithm Monitored region Alerted region Events with Mmax5.5 occurred since July 2003 M6.5 M6.0 M5.5 Updated to March 1 2007 (Peresan al., Earth Sci. Rev. 2005)

  15. SISMA Local scale of the single seismogenic zone

  16. Methodology for detecting the movements during the co-seismic phases in earthquake prone areas (Crippa B. et al., 2006).

  17. (a) (b) Surface deformation obtained by geophysical inverse modeling (a) and DInSAR analysis (b). (c) misfit between prediction and observation (c) m

  18. Our preliminary results confirm the benefits coming from the usage of Earth Observation data to improve the capability of monitoring active faults in Near Real Time: an important step toward the mitigation of seismic hazard

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