The OGS experience in rapid determination of source parameters and ShakeMaps for NE Italy

Abstract

OGS manages an integrated seismic network designed to monitor regional seismic activity of North-East Italy (NI) and surroundings. The network includes 11 digital broadband seismometers and 27 short period stations. Waveforms and parametric data are exchanged in real time with the local Civil Defence agencies, the INGV, the Earth Science Department of the University of Trieste, the Zentralanstalt für Meterologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG) in Vienna, and the Agencija Republike Slovenije za Okolje (ARSO) in Ljubljana, in order to support emergency management and seismological studies in the whole Alps–Dinarides junction zone. The Antelope software suite from BRTT has been chosen as the common basis for real time data exchange, rapid location of earthquakes and alerting.