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ITACA (ITalian ACcelerometric Archive): a Web Portal for the Dissemination of the Italian Strong Motion Data
Author(s)
Language
English
Obiettivo Specifico
5.2. TTC - Banche dati di sismologia strumentale
Status
Published
JCR Journal
JCR Journal
Peer review journal
Yes
Title of the book
Issue/vol(year)
5/79 (2008)
Publisher
Seismological Society of America
Pages (printed)
716-722
Issued date
2008
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Keywords
Abstract
The Italian strong-motion database contains 2182 three component waveforms generated by 1004 earthquakes with a maximum magnitude of 6.9 (1980 Irpinia earthquake) covering the period range from 1972 to 2004. The database is devoted to serving the seismological and engineering communities.
The database can be accessed on-line at the site http://itaca.mi.ingv.it, where a wide range of search tools enables the user to interactively search events, recording stations and retrieve waveforms with particular characteristics, whose parameters can be specified, as needed, through a graphical user interface. A range of display options allows users to view data in different contexts, extract and download time series and spectral data.
The database was created during a joint project between Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, Italian institute for geophysics and vulcanology) and Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC, Italian civil protection). The aim of the project was the collection, homogenization and distribution of data acquired over the time period 1972-2004 in Italy by different Italian institutions, namely Ente Nazionale per l’Energia Elettrica (ENEL, Italian electricity company), Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente (ENEA, Italian energy and environment organization) and DPC. The project had multiple purposes, such as permanent strong motion monitoring and temporary monitoring during seismic sequences or before permanent installation.
This database brings up to date the ENEA strong motion data collection which ended in 1993 and the European database where the most recent Italian data pertain to the Umbria-Marche sequence of 1997-1998 (Ambraseys at al., 2002). In addition effort was spent reviewing strong motion metadata and data processing to increase data quality and reliability.
This article describes the steps that led to the completion of the project and provides an overview of the search capabilities available at the database interface website.
The database can be accessed on-line at the site http://itaca.mi.ingv.it, where a wide range of search tools enables the user to interactively search events, recording stations and retrieve waveforms with particular characteristics, whose parameters can be specified, as needed, through a graphical user interface. A range of display options allows users to view data in different contexts, extract and download time series and spectral data.
The database was created during a joint project between Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, Italian institute for geophysics and vulcanology) and Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC, Italian civil protection). The aim of the project was the collection, homogenization and distribution of data acquired over the time period 1972-2004 in Italy by different Italian institutions, namely Ente Nazionale per l’Energia Elettrica (ENEL, Italian electricity company), Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente (ENEA, Italian energy and environment organization) and DPC. The project had multiple purposes, such as permanent strong motion monitoring and temporary monitoring during seismic sequences or before permanent installation.
This database brings up to date the ENEA strong motion data collection which ended in 1993 and the European database where the most recent Italian data pertain to the Umbria-Marche sequence of 1997-1998 (Ambraseys at al., 2002). In addition effort was spent reviewing strong motion metadata and data processing to increase data quality and reliability.
This article describes the steps that led to the completion of the project and provides an overview of the search capabilities available at the database interface website.
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Castello B., Selvaggi G., Chiarabba C., and Amato A. (2006). CSI Catalogo della sismicità italiana 1981-2002, version 1.1. INGV-CNT, Roma. http://www.ingv.it/CSI/.
DISS Working Group (2006). Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS), Version 3.0.2: A compilation of potential sources for earthquakes larger than M 5.5 in Italy and surrounding areas. http://www.ingv.it/DISS/, © INGV 2005, 2006 - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - All rights reserved.
Esri - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. Copyright © 1995-2008 ESRI. All rights reserved.
Global Centroid Moment Tensor Project. http://www.globalcmt.org.
Google Maps. Copyright © 2008 Google Map data – 2008 Tele Atlas.
Goldstein, P., D. Dodge, M. Firpo, Lee Minner (2003). SAC2000: Signal processing and analysis tools for seismologists and engineers, Invited contribution to The IASPEI International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, Edited by WHK Lee, H. Kanamori, P.C. Jennings, and C. Kisslinger, Academic Press, London.
Gruppo di lavoro CPTI (2004). Catalogo Parametrico dei Terremoti Italiani, versione 2004 (CPTI04). INGV, Bologna. http://emidius.mi.ingv.it/CPTI04/.
International Seismological Centre. Bulletin of the International Seismological Centre. http://www.isc.ac.uk.
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – CNT (2007). Bollettino della sismicità strumentale. Centro Nazionale Terremoti, INGV, Roma. http://www.ingv.it/~roma/reti/rms/bollettino.
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia MedNet - Mediterranean Very Broadband Seismographic Network. http://mednet.rm.ingv.it.
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica. ING Catalogue (1450 B.C. - 1990). Roma.
Java Technology. Copyright © 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Matlab - The Language of Technical Computing, Release 14. Copyrigth ® 1984-2005 The Mathworks Inc.
Mele F., Badiali L., Marcocci C. and Piscini A. (2002). Locator: i codici. Un sistema di localizzazione in tempo quasi reale. Technical notes of Centro Dati e Informazione sui Terremoti, n. 6 / 2002.
Microsoft Access 2003. Copyright © 1992-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
MySQL 2008. Copyright © 1995-2008 Sun Microsystems. All rights reserved
National Earthquake Information Center – NEIC. Earthquake catalogue.
http:// earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic
Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology - NERIES.(2006). Sixth Framework Program (FP6) of the European Commission, contract no. RII3-CT-2006-026130. http://www.neries-eu.org/
Pondrelli, S., Salimbeni S., Ekström G., Morelli A., Gasperini P., and Vannucci G. (2006). The Italian CMT dataset from 1977 to the present. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2006.07.008, 159/3-4, 286-303. www.ingv.it/seismoglo/RCMT.
Vannucci G., and Gasperini P. (2004). The new release of the database of Earthquake Mechanisms of the Mediterranean Area (EMMA version 2). Annals of Geophysics, supplement to vol. 47, N. 1.
Zoback M.L. (1992). First- and Second-Order Patterns of Stress in the Lithosphere: the World Stress Map Project. J. Geoph. Res. 97, n.B8, 11703-11728.
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