2014 state-of-the-art of the OGS Northeastern Italy Seismic Network

Abstract

The Centro di Ricerche Sismologiche (CRS, Seismological Research Centre) of the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS, Italian National Institute for Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics) in Udine (Italy) after the strong earthquake of magnitude M=6.4 occurred in 1976 in the Italian Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, started to operate the North-eastern Italy Seismic Network: it currently consists of 18 very sensitive broad band and 20 simpler short period seismic stations, most of them equipped also with strong motion accelerometers, all tele-metered to and acquired in real time at the OGS-CRS data centre in Udine. Real time data exchange agreements in place with other Italian, Slovenian, Austrian and Swiss seismological institutes lead to a total number of about 100 seismic stations acquired in real time, which makes the OGS the reference institute for seismic monitoring of North-eastern Italy (Priolo et al., 2005, Bragato et al., 2011, Bragato et al., 2013, Saraò et al., 2010 and Pesaresi et al., 2011). Recent developments in running the OGS Northeastern Italy Seismic Network will be here illustrated.