MIDOP: Macroseismic Intensity Data Online Publisher

Within the Networking Activity 4 (NA4) "Distributed Archive of Historical Earthquake Data" of the EU NERIES project, a massive quantity of macroseismic data related to earthquakes of the past centuries is being published online. The NA4 working team is composed of many researchers coming from five European National Institutions. The retrieved data range from year 1000 to year 1900 and cover all of Europe. The presented tool "MIDOP" is being specifically developed for intuitive online publication of macroseismic maps of historical earthquakes

Archive of Historical Earthquake Data for the European-Mediterranean Area

The importance of historical earthquake data is largely recognized by both seismologists and engineers, who use such data in a wide range of applications

The IT framework of the European Archive of Historical Earthquake Data (AHEAD)

The European Archive of Historical EArthquake Data (AHEAD) has been developed in the frame of the EC project NERIES and maintained in the frame of the EC project SHARE.AHEAD makes available on the web the result of a networked historical earthquake data research, formalised in terms of studies (papers, reports, macroseismic data points, etc). It provides an updated wealth of data that are unique for many European events in the time-window 1000-1963.A series of IT solutions have been developed in order to support both the research and the networking activities carried out within the building process of AHEAD. The resulting framework is an equally balanced effort in both the back-end and front-end design and implementation, a key feature in a research approach very much human-centred, where the quantity of data is small if compared to terabytes of instrumental data.AHEAD is composed of five mutually dependent data-components: 1) the “Digital Library”, where all the historical earthquake studies are stored and described by bibliographical metadata, 2) the “Consensus Earthquake Inventory”, where the relevant macroseismic data (event date, epicentral area, number of macroseismic data-point, maximum observed intensity) are extrapolated, the best available information are selected and fake earthquakes are highlighted, 3) the “European Macroseismic Database”, where all the available macroseismic data-points (MDPs) are stored, 4) the “Parameters Laboratory”, where earthquakes parameterisation methods are applied to MDPs in order to obtain epicentral locations and magnitudes and 5) the “European Earthquake Catalogue”.The presentation will demonstrate the adopted IT solutions separately for the back-end and the front-end, both for the access-restricted website and the general-purpose implementation designed to be included in the “Earthquake Data Portal”, developed within the EC project NERIES, which targets a much broader scientific community

From macroseismic intensity data to the earthquake parameters

Two tools have been developed within the European Archive of Historical EArthquake Data (AHEAD) in order to process and analyse roughly 270.000 Macroseismic Intensity Data-points (MDPs) related to circa 7000 earthquakes European-wise and spanning more than a 1000 years.The first addressed task was to investigate interactively on a map such data, to better evaluate the quality and differences between datasets describing the same earthquake. A tool called MIDOP (Macroseismic Data Online Publisher) has been created: by simply choosing a list of earthquakes and their corresponding MDPs, a complete self-sustained website can be created, ready to be published on the web. It offers an intuitive control panel for maps and tables customisation and it offers the possibility to generate places seismic histories. No external data-sources are required while presenting maps and the resulting websites can be browsed also locally. A series of problems related to the AHEAD environment have been taken into account while designing the tool: 1) macroseismic intensity data standardisation of formats among European institutions, 2) support the growth of locally developed macroseismic data-centres and 3) help publishing the earthquake data on the web with a specifically designed web-mapping tool.The second task to be addressed was to process such amount of MDPs in order to obtain earthquake parameters (epicentral location and magnitude) according to available and published methods. Three parameterization methods were identified: Boxer, Bakun & Wentworth and MEEP, each coming with its Windows pre-compiled line command executable. The tool, called “Parametrizator”, is able to batch process the input MDPs and present the result on maps using MIDOP

A New Online Intensity Data Point Database for Portugal

Online macroseismic intensity databases are becoming common tools in the framework activities related to seismic hazard assessment as they can offer a consistent information background. In Europe, institutions such as INGV (IT), ETH (CH) and Sisfrance (FR) have well-established Macroseismic Intensity Databases. In the framework of the EC projects NERIES (2006-2010) and SHARE (2009-2012), the European "Archive of Historical EArthquake Data" AHEAD was established. Other European institutions are now in the process of creating their own intensity databases following such a proposed common standard. Portugal is among those countries working on a macroseismic intensity database, as at present an updated general compilation of the mainland Portugal macroseismicity is still unavailable. The IM, has among its short term objectives to compile a macroseismic database and to give free access to it on the web. To manage it, the MIDOP software, created and developed by the Italian INGV has been selected. It allows easy access to earthquake listing and visualization of geographical distribution of intensity data points through a web page without the need of installing a complex infrastructure. MIDOP underlying structure strictly follows the standard proposed by AHEAD and with its adoption the collected data will be compatible with other national databases. The status of the project is here presented

Monitoraggio delle politiche per la gestione istituzionale dei dati negli EPR

Presentazione delle attività di monitoraggio delle politiche e delle pratiche per la gestione istituzionale dei dati negli EPR fatta dal Gruppo di Lavoro Open Science della CoPER, la Consulta dei Presidenti degli Enti Pubblici di Ricerca, ai componenti del Tavolo di lavoro per l’implementazione del Programma Nazionale per Scienza Aperta (PNSA) del MUR durante l'incontro che si è tenuto il 14 novembre 202

The University of Athens Hellenic Macroseismic Database for Historical Earthquakes

During the last decade, a systematic study of historical earthquakes leading to the quantification of earthquake effects in terms of macroseismic datapoints (MDPs) and, consequently, to earthquake parameters, has been carried out in the Laboratory of Seismology of the University of Athens. For each earthquake, the available background information has been evaluated and the corresponding macroseismic intensities assessed in terms of EMS98. A considerable amount of studied earthquakes contributed to the Archive of Historical EArthquake Data (AHEAD) and MDPs are now part of its European Macroseismic Database, via European initiatives (NERIES, SHARE). Based on standards proposed by AHEAD, a local database was designed, incorporating historical earthquakes of the period 1000-1899, mainly from the eastern Aegean area. The database includes 93 events with Ix≥7 (683 MDPs) and 1053 events with Ix<7 (1205 MDPs). The data is accessible on the Internet at http://macroseismology.geol.uoa.gr

Politiche, strumenti, azioni per l'accesso aperto negli EPR

Il Sondaggio degli EPR sulle politiche Open Access è stato lanciato il 27 luglio 2022 e chiuso il 31 ottobre 2022 Ha risposto l'80% degli EPR Non ha risposto il 20% degli EPR Rivolto a delegati o rappresentanti Open Science degli EPR. Il sondaggio è costruito sul modello di quello inviato alle Università dall’Osservatorio sulla Scienza Aperta della CRUI Il questionario è diviso in due parti principali: 1. documenti normativi e attuativi; 2. infrastrutture, formazione, strumenti educativi e di divulgazione scientifica open Specificità diverse di ogni EPR e differenti Ministeri vigilanti: diversi livelli di sviluppo di azioni e strumenti dedicati all’Accesso Apert

QQuake, a QGIS Plugin for Loading Seismological Data From Web Services

An increasing number of web services providing convenient access to seismological data have become available in recent years. A huge effort at multiple levels was required to achieve this goal and the seismological community was engaged in the standardization of both data formats and web services. Although access to seismological data is much easier than in the past, users encounter problems because of the large number of web services, and due to the complexity of the discipline-specific data encodings. In addition, instead of adopting cross-disciplinary standards such as those by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), most seismological web services created their own standards, primarily those by the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (FDSN). This article introduces "QQuake," a plugin for QGIS—the Open Source Geographic Information System—that aims at making access to seismological data easier. The plugin is based on an Open Source code available on GitHub, and it is designed in a modular and customizable way, allowing users to easily include new web services