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PRE-EARTHQUAKES

Processing Russian and European EARTH observations for earthQUAKE precursors Studies

A large scientific documentation is to-date available about the appearance of anomalous space-time patterns of geophysical parameters measured from days to week before earthquakes occurrence. Nevertheless, up to now no single measurable parameter, no single observational methodology has demonstrated to be sufficiently reliable and effective for the implementation of an operational earthquake prediction system. To this aim, the combined use of different observations/parameters together with the refinement of data analysis methods, are expected to give major improvements in order to reduce false alarm rates and improve reliability and precision of predictions.

Propagation of lithospheric processes into atmosphere/ionosphere and related space based monitoring.

The project “PRE-EARTHQUAKES” intends to commit EU and Russian researchers to integrate different observational data and to improve, by cross validating, their methodologies, in order:

• to substantially improve our knowledge of preparatory phases of earthquakes and their possible precursors
• to promote a worldwide Earthquake Observation System (EQuOS) as a dedicated component of GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)
• to develop and offer to the international scientific community an integration platform where independent observations and new data analysis methodologies devoted to the research of earthquake precursors can be collected and cross-validated.

The project is a first step in developing an operational earthquake warning service.

Support: European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

Consortium:

Università degli Studi della Basilicata (UNIBAS) /Italy (Prime); Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), D; TUBITAK Marmara Research Center/Turkey (TUBITAK); Fiodorov Institute of Applied Geophysics / Russian Federation (FIAG); Russian Space Systems/Russian Federation (RSS); Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism; Ionosphere and Radio wave propagation of the Russian Academy Sciences Western Department/ Russian Federation (WD IZMIRAN)

Duration: 2011 -2013