Access to unique high-level installations and experiments provided through Geo-INQUIRE is free of charge for the selected users and includes all costs necessary to perform the proposed research, such as equipment, support staff at the installation, consumables, training for external users and others.

Geo-INQUIRE (Geosphere INfrastructures for QUestions into Integrated REsearch) fosters excellent, interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven research of the solid Earth, including land-sea-atmosphere interfaces.

More information: www.geo-inquire.eu

Along with Graeme Weatherill, Roberto Basili, and Radmila Salic Makreska, they constitute the new Consortium Governance together with the existing members Olga-Joan Ktenidou, António A. Correia, and Laurentiu Danciu, who serves as Consortium Secretary. With their expertise, they will further thrive on EFEHR's mission to advance earthquake hazard and risk assessment in the European-Mediterranean area.

At the same time, we express our gratitude to our former Chair, Fabrice Cotton, and the three outgoing Executive Committee members: Helen Crowley, Päivi Mäntyniemi, and Céline Beauval. Their dedicated in-kind contributions and collective efforts over the last four years have laid a solid foundation upon which EFEHR can continue to build.

New EFEHR members

Over the past four years, EFEHR significantly grew in membership from 12 to 37. Recently, seven new members became part of the General Assembly:

• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London (UK)
• Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde (UK)
• Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Pristina "Hasan Prishtina" (Kosovo)
• Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology, Sector of Seismology (Montenegro)
• Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture of University of Naples Federico II, Naples (Italy)
• Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Instituto Dom Luiz IDL (Portugal)
• Department of Civil Engineering, TED University Ankara TED, (Türkiye)

More information:

EFEHR Newsletter #6

The earthquake sequence in Türkiye and Syria: Lessons learned from datasets to earthquake risk assessment

→ Conveners: H. Crowley and L. Danciu

R. Basili, INGV (Italy): "Recent earthquakes within and around the Euro-Mediterranean region"

K. Sesetyan, KOERI (Türkiye): "Large historical earthquakes (1000-1900) around the East Anatolian fault zone"

P. Cito, UNINA (Italy): "The 6 February 2023 Türkiye earthquakes: insights from the earthquake engineering perspective"

U. Hancilar, KOERI (Türkiye): "Rapid estimation of strong ground motion, building damage distributions and the recovery efforts in the aftermath of the Kahramanmaraş-Türkiye M7.7 earthquake, 6 February 2023"

E. Riga, AUTH (Greece): "Rapid damage assessment for the February 6th, 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence applying components of ESRM20"

G. Weatherill, GFZ (Germany): "The 6 February 2023 Türkiye earthquakes: insights from the European Seismic Hazard and Risk Models"

S032 - The Value of Macroseismic Intensity Data: from Earthquake Source Characterization to Ground Motion and Seismic Hazard Estimation and Testing

The value of macroseismic data, defined as the effects of earthquake shaking on people and the natural and built environment, commonly used to estimate numerical intensity values, is increasingly recognized by our community. Macroseismic data provide unique and invaluable information for many types of investigation, and several methods have been developed in recent years to fully exploit them, including an appreciation of both their limitations and value. This session welcomes contributions on both methodologies to analyze this kind of data and case histories, aiming to cover the widest possible range of their applications in the seismological and engineering practice.

A non-exclusive list of topics includes: investigating past earthquakes, characterizing their sources, compiling long-term catalogs, characterizing long-term seismicity for probabilistic seismic hazard assessment, estimating expected shaking levels through intensity attenuation models and relationships between ground motion parameters and macroseismic intensity, testing and retrospective evaluation of seismic hazard estimates and shaking scenarios.

• Primary Convener: Susan Elizabeth Hough (USGS Pasadena Field Office)
• Conveners: Andrea Rovida (INGV Milano), Vera D'Amico (INGV Pisa), Dario Albarello (University of Siena)

After more than 20 years of research and innovation, on 25 April EPOS (European Plate Observing System), the European research infrastructure for solid Earth science, will officially present its Data Portal to the scientific community which will gather in Vienna and online for the annual General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union 2023 (EGU23).

Born in 2007 with the aim of developing a long-term integration plan for sharing scientific data and products, EPOS has integrated around 150 national research organizations from 25 European countries into a single distributed infrastructure. In 2018, EPOS obtained the legal status of ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) from the European Commission. “The EPOS vision is to promote open science by sharing multidisciplinary solid Earth science data and products to foster research and innovation; this has guided us in the creation of the Data Portal that we will present on 25 April in Vienna”, explains Lilli Freda, Executive Director of EPOS ERIC.

The unprecedented amount of data, products and services made available by the EPOS Data Portal for a large spectrum of users (scientific community, institutions, political decision- makers) promotes the progress of research for a better understanding of the physical and chemical processes governing natural phenomena of the Earth system such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. “EPOS is the first and only European research infrastructure for solid Earth science”, continues Freda, “and it will help not only researchers, but also national governments in identifying tools for the mitigation of natural hazards, as well as promoting investments in research and innovation”.

EPOS Data Portal is the result of collective work. Over the last twenty years, an international team of about 600 experts has worked in synergy on the integration and harmonization of over 60 types of metadata from the various disciplines that make up the solid Earth sciences enabling interoperability.

Participants of the EGU General Assembly will be able to see the results of this commitment by visiting the EPOS stand, using the Data Portal and attending the presentation of case studies developed by young researchers.

About EPOS

The EPOS architecture is based on four main elements.

• National Research Infrastructures: these are the foundations of the EPOS architecture, where the scientific data integrated in EPOS are generated.
• Thematic Core Services (TCS): these represent the governance level of the various scientific communities (Seismology, Near-Fault Observatories, Volcano Observations, Satellite Data, Geomagnetic Observations, Anthropogenic Hazards, Geological Information and Modeling, Multi-Scale Laboratories, Tsunami, GNSS Data & Products), where data produced by national infrastructures are standardized to ensure integrated access.
• Integrated Core Services (ICS): this is the new e-infrastructure developed by EPOS for accessing integrated data, products and services through the Data Portal.
• European Consortium of Research Infrastructure EPOS ERIC: this is the legal entity established in 2018 to coordinate the entire European research infrastructure. It is based in Rome, at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), and it currently involves seventeen countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden and The United Kingdom; Germany and Switzerland participate as observers.

EPOS ERIC Data Portal launch event

The event will be part of the initiatives organised on the occasion of the EGU23 Annual General Meeting.

• Tuesday 25 April, 19:00, Room E2 @Austria Center Vienna - EPOS Townhall “Introducing EPOS Data Portal”
• From 24 to 28 April, the EPOS community will meet scientists from all geoscience disciplines at the EPOS booth (Exhibition Gallery Green Level 1 - 111/112/113).

→ Text adopted from the EPOS press release