RecSec a web application for the Record Sections of Euro-Mediterranean earthquakes

Abstract

In this short note, we introduce a web application where the Record Sections, automatically created after a revised earthquake location, can be accessed. The Record Sections are graphical representations of the waveforms of seismic events in Distance-Time diagrams. They are created for each event occurring in the Euro-Mediterranean area with a magnitude greater than 2.8 and for which a definitive location is computed by the INGV surveillance service. The analysed stations belong to many European seismic networks whose waveforms are distributed through EIDA [European Integrated Data Archive, http://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/eida/]. The IT tool we have realized, described in this note, is a useful multipurpose instrument: it can be fruitfully employed both for research purposes, for a rapid quality control of seismic stations and also for education