Acquiring, archiving, analyzing and exchanging seismic data in real time at the Seismological Research Center of the OGS in Italy

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Pier Luigi Bragato
Paolo Di Bartolomeo
Damiano Pesaresi
Milton Percy Plasencia Linares
Angela Saraò

Abstract

After the 1976 Friuli earthquake (Ms = 6.5) in north-eastern Italy that caused about 1,000 casualties and widespread destruction in the Friuli area, the Italian government established the Centro di Ricerche Sismologiche (CRS). This is now a department of the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), and it is specifically devoted to the monitoring of the seismicity of north-eastern Italy. Since its inception, the North-East Italy Seismic Network has grown enormously. Currently, it consists of 14 broad-band and 20 short-period seismic stations, all of which are telemetered to and acquired in real time at the OGS-CRS data center in Udine. Data exchange agreements in place with other Italian, Slovenian, Austrian and Swiss seismological institutes lead to a total number of 94 seismic stations acquired in real time, which confirms that the OGS is the reference institute for seismic monitoring of north-eastern Italy. Since 2002, CRS has been using the Antelope software suite as the main tool for collecting, analyzing, archiving and exchanging seismic data. SeisComP is also used as a real-time data exchange server tool. A customized web-accessible server is used to manually relocate earthquakes, and automatic procedures have been set-up for moment-tensor determination, shaking-map computation, web publishing of earthquake parametric data, waveform drumplots, state-of-health parameters, and quality checks of the station by spectra analysis. Scripts for email/SMS/fax alerting to public institutions have also been customized. Recently, a real-time seismology website was designed and set-up (http://rts.crs.inogs.it/).

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Bragato, P. L., Di Bartolomeo, P., Pesaresi, D., Plasencia Linares, M. P. and Saraò, A. (2011) “Acquiring, archiving, analyzing and exchanging seismic data in real time at the Seismological Research Center of the OGS in Italy”, Annals of Geophysics, 54(1), pp. 67–75. doi: 10.4401/ag-4958.
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Author Biographies

Pier Luigi Bragato, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Udine

Centro di Ricerche Sismologiche (CRS) department, researcher

Paolo Di Bartolomeo, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Udine

Centro di Ricerche Sismologiche (CRS) department, researcher

Damiano Pesaresi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - INGV, Rome; Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Udine

Sismologia e Tettonofisica department (INGV) Centro di Ricerche Sismologiche (CRS) department (OGS) researcher

Milton Percy Plasencia Linares, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Udine

Centro di Ricerche Sismologiche (CRS) department, researcher

Angela Saraò, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Udine

Centro di Ricerche Sismologiche (CRS) department, researcher