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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS003 Oral Presentation 1868<br />

Monitoring geophysical precursors to natural hazards<br />

Mrs. Steinunn S. Jakobsdttir<br />

Physics Department Icelandic Meteorological Office <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

The Geophysical Monitoring Section of the Icelandic Meteorological Office has the obligation to monitor<br />

and - if possible - to forecast natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and glacial floods<br />

(jkulhlaup). Three types of networks are operated in real-time for this purpose: the SIL seismic network,<br />

the ISGPS continuous GPS network and a volumetric strain network. The SIL seismic system was<br />

designed in the Nordic SIL-project (1988-1995) as a tool for earthquake prediction research and<br />

monitoring. Automatic earthquake locations and continuous GPS and strain time-series are available at:<br />

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/. An automatic alert system monitors changes in seismicity and sends reports<br />

via SMS, e-mail and by audio messages to computers at the Office. In the EU projects PRENLAB 1&2<br />

(1996-2000), SMSITES (2000-2003), RETINA (2002-2003), PREPARED (2003-2005) and FORESIGHT<br />

(2004-2006) SIL seismic data, including two magnitude ~6.5 earthquakes in June 2000, was used for<br />

earthquake prediction research. Different methods have been developed within these projects in order<br />

to extract information from the data, focussing on highlighting possible precursors. These methods are<br />

now being implemented in the monitoring system. A Spectral Amplitude Grouping (SAG) method from<br />

the PREPARED project is running automatically, displaying the results through a web page. In the<br />

SAFER projecta(2006-2008), a data-base of active faults will be made available for the daily operation,<br />

making it possible to relate earthquakes to known faults in near real-time. Within FORESIGHT, real-time<br />

corrections to volumetric strain data were made for earth tides and air pressure, and an automated<br />

detector will soon be in use within the alert system. The presentation will summarize methods that are<br />

already implemented or will be implemented in the near future and it will discuss some of the insights<br />

gained from these approaches.<br />

Keywords: monitoring, precursors

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