Data mining from Antelope at OGS-CRS (Udine, Italy)

Abstract

Since 2002 the Seismological Research Centre (Centro di Ricerche Sismologiche, CRS, http://www.crs.inogs.it) of the National Institute for Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS) in Trieste (Italy) is involved in the EU INTERREG IIIA project “Trans-national seismological networks in the South-Eastern Alps” together with other four Institutions: Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG) in Vienna (Austria), the Earth Science Department of the Trieste University in Trieste (Italy) and the Agencija Republike Slovenije Za Okolje (ARSO) in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The commercial Antelope software suite from BRTT has been chosen as the common basis for real time data exchange, rapid location of earthquakes and alerting. Antelope is a powerful software suite that easily allows sharing data in real time among neighbouring institutions. However it must be tuned to each seismological data centre needs in order to extract the specific information required. At OGS-CRS we adapted existing programs and created new ones like: a customized interface to manually relocate earthquakes, a script for automatic moment tensor determination, scripts for web publishing of earthquake locations, waveforms, state of health parameters and shaking maps, plus scripts for email/SMS/fax alerting.