INQUA TERPRO - Focus Area on Paleoseismicity and Active
Tectonics
The SubCommission on Paleoseismicity: Methods Criteria and
Dating, following the suggestion of the Executive Committee elected
in Cairns, will adopt the intercongress period 2007-2001 the
new definition of "Focus Area on Paleosismicity and Active
Tectonics". It aims at promoting methodological studies on
seismically-induced environmental effects through
paleoseismological research.
A network of more than 80 geologists, seismologists and engineers
with expertise in this sector is connected by this focus area,
encouraging scientific exchange and collaborative efforts.
The structure of the Focus Area is composed by one President
and three Vice Presidents. The Scientific
Secretary is based in APAT.
What's new?
- The infrastructure of the EEE catalogue remote implementation
is ready to collect standard information on environmental effects
induced by recent, historical and paleoseismic events.
http://www.eeecatalog.sinanet.apat.it/login.php
Authors of data collection will be formally cited in the catalogue,
and their contribution will be acknowledged through a certificate
formally issued by the INQUA Focus Area.
- Participants to the project are therefore strongly encouraged
to compile the catalogue with available datasets on the EEEs
induced by a seismic event, even if not exhaustive of the entire
scenario. In fact, preliminary tests are showing that beyond such
differences in data quality, resolution and completeness, an
intensity assessment is possible. More information are in the
EEE
Catalogue Guidelines.
- The Palaeoseismology:
historical and prehistorical records of earthquake ground
effects for seismic hazard assessment GSL Special Volume n.
316 edited by K. Reicherter, A.M. Michetti and P.G. Silva,
contains papers that address scientific and technical problems
with the compilation and analysis of historical and
pre-historical records of earthquake induced ground and
environmental effects, for earthquake intensity mapping and
seismic hazard assessment. In the volume are collected several
applications of the ESI 2007 scale in different geological
settings and tectonics regimes, including discussions of the
advantages and problems encountered, and comparisons with other
earthquakes.
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A new project for the 2008-2011
Intercongress period
A new project "A global catalogue and mapping of earthquake
environmental effects" has been funded
by the INQUA Executive Committee for the period 2008-2011. It
aims at
- compiling a global catalogue of earthquake environmental
effects;
- disseminating the ESI 2007 scale in the scientific and
technical community.
The activities for 2009 listed in the 2009 Work
Plan have been approved by the INQUA
Executive Committee.
The project is in continuity with the 2003-2007 INQUA project
which ended in Cairns, where the
ESI 2007 seismic intensity scale, based only on earthquake
environmental effects, has
been ratified.
The EEE catalogue will be also a contribute to the
GEO initiative, Subtask
"Systematic Monitoring for Geohazards Risk Assessment (DI-09-01).
For further details go to the 2009-2011 GEOSS
Work Plan.
The First Project Meeting was held on August 9, 2008,
during the 33
rd International Geological Congress in Oslo.
The Second Project Meeting was held on February 22nd
2009, during the Field
Trip Workshop "The Dead Sea Rift as natural laboratory for
earthquake behaviour: prehistorical, historical and recent
seismicity" (16th - 23rd February,
2009).
The Third Project Meeting was held during the Workshop
on Earthquake Archaeology and Paleoseismology in Baelo
Claudia Roman ruins, Southern Spain (7th -
13th September, 2009).
For further information, please contact the Scientific Secretary.