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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 />

JSS016 Oral Presentation 2349<br />

Permanent (OBS ALBORAN) and long term (RED FOMAR) OBS deployment<br />

at Gulf of Cadiz Alboran Sea (Ibero-Maghrebian Region).<br />

Dr. Antonio Pazos Garca<br />

FDSN member <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Jos Martn Davila, Elisa Buforn, Agustn Udas, Winfried Hanka<br />

The Eurasian-African plate boundary crosses the called "Ibero-Maghrebian" region from the San Vicente<br />

Cape (SW Portugal) to Tunisia including the south Iberia, Alborn Sea, and northern of Morocco and<br />

Algeria. The low convergence rate at this plateboundary produces a continuousmoderate seismic activity<br />

of low magnitude and shallow depth, where the ocurrence of large earthquakes is separated by long<br />

time interbvals. In this region, there are alsointermediate and very depthearthquakes. To study this<br />

complex area, the Royal Naval Observatory in San Fernando (ROA) and the Universidad Complutense of<br />

Madrid (UCM),with the collaboration of the GeoForschungZentrum of Potsdam (GFZ), have deployed the<br />

Western Mediterranean Broad Band seismic network (WM), with stations located in southern Spain and<br />

Northern Africa, surrounding the Alboran sea and the Cadiz Gulf. Due to the fact of that many events<br />

are located at marine areas, and thepoor geographic azimuthal coverage at some zones provided by<br />

land stations,the WM network will be complemented with a deployment of several broad band Ocean<br />

Bottom Seismometers (OBS) in the Gulf of Cdizand the Alborn sea. One permanent OBS will be<br />

deployed in the vicinities of the Alborn island (OBS Alborn) and four long term (three years) temporal<br />

OBS's will be deployed at the Gulf of Cdiz and the Alborn sea (Red FOMAR), with the support of the<br />

Spanish Navy facilities (ships, divers,...). All them have been funded by the Spanish "Ministerio de<br />

Educacin y Ciencia" under the projectsRIOA05-23-002and CGL2005-24194-E. In this work we describe<br />

the present status of the OBS deployment, and the future planned steps, in the frame of the Western<br />

Mediterranean (WM) network activities.<br />

Keywords: obs, western mediterranean

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