Bindi, D.

Castello, B.

Di Giacomo, D.

Gorini, A.

Lovati, S.

Luzi, L.

Marcucci, S.

Massa, M.

Mele, F.

Milana, G.

Pacor, F.

Rainone, M. L.

Sabetta, F.

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   Progetti Sismologici di Interesse per il DPC   Progetto S6 
 
 
 
Project S6 – Data base of the Italian strong-motion data relative to the 
period 1972-2004  
 
Coordinators: Lucia Luzi (INGV-MI) and Fabio Sabetta (DPC-USSN) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
TASK 1 - Deliverable 7  
 
 
 
 
Strong-motion data base 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Authors 
  
Lucia Luzi, Dino Bindi, Sara Lovati, Francesca Pacor, Marco Massa, Doomenico Di Giacomo (UR1) 
Francesco Mele, Barbara Castello (UR2) 
Giuliano Milana (UR3) 
Antonella Gorini, Sandro Marcucci, Fabio Sabetta (UR4) 
Mario Luigi Rainone (UR5) 
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1. INTRODUCTION 
 
The deliverable 7 is the data base and represents the core-product of the project. It 
has two different format thought for different uses. The first product is the Ms Access 
data base, which is the collection of tables and the data can be browsed block-by-
block (events, recording sites, waveforms, references) or performing very simple 
queries.  
The second product is the data base that can be accessed through www at the 
following address http://itaca.mi.ingv.it . The data set can be browsed and searched 
starting from the recording sites, the seismic events, the waveforms or the 
bibliographic references.  
Several parameters can be specified for each of the four different information. In 
particular, for the sites and the events, the search can be performed either on 
attribute data or on geographic location, by specifying the coordinate range. A very 
basic event and station mapping is obtained through a link to Google maps. The 
queries can also be made in a step-by-step way starting from the event (which can be 
constrained selecting location, magnitude or time), going through the station 
information (which can also be constrained selecting location, name or type of 
network) to the waveforms (which can be constrained selecting the engineering 
parameters). 
The waveforms resulting from the queries can be downloaded  in the standard 
format and displayed together with the corresponding acceleration response spectra, 
with a graphic Java utility.   
 
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2. THE DATA BASE IN MS ACCESS FORMAT 
 
The data base consists in a .mde file. The main mask (Figure 1) reports a list of the 
searchable blocks of the data base, namely Events, Recording sites, Recording 
channel, Waveforms and data dictionaries. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Figure 1: main mask of the data base 
 
 
 
The event mask displays the main parameters of the events such as location, focal 
mechanism, magnitude attribution, macroseismic epicentral intensity, together with 
the information sources. When the fault has been identified, the strike, dip and rake 
are displayed, with the corresponding reference catalogue. In the other fault field the 
id of the used catalogue is described, to help the user who wants to increase the 
detail on this parameter. The events can be searched by input the date in the ISO 
format (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) at the upper right corner of the mask and browsed 
by clicking the arrows on the toolbar (Figure 2) 
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Figure 2: Event mask (the events can be searched by input on the upper right corner 
the date in ISO format and browsed by clicking the arrows on the toolbar) 
 
 
The recording site mask lists all the stations by network (by default the Italian 
accelerometric network is reported). By the use of the arrows in the toolbar, one can 
browse among networks (at the moment only two are contained, namely ITDPC and 
ENEA). Analogously, the network code can be entered at the upper right corner. In 
order to search a station one should click on the right mouse button and select 
“Trova” (in Italian), as shown in Figure 3. The information of a single station can be 
inspected by selecting see station detail.  
The recording station is characterised by general information, such as the geographic 
location, the address, the location on a IGM map, the installation type. Detailed 
information, on the instruments installed, the stratigraphy, the geotechnical logs, the 
site response function and the dispersion curve are contained in separate tables, that 
can be displayed one by one. For almost all station there is a link to the document 
which reports other kind of information, such as the location of the station on an 
aerial photograph, the geologic map, the images of the stratigraphy, geotechnical and 
geophysical logs, the results of laboratory tests on soil samples, the graph showing 
the site response function, among others.  
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Figure 3: list of the recording station by network; the arrows in the toolbar allow to 
browse among networks; the network code can be entered at the upper right corner 
 
 
 
 
Figure 4: recording station detail 
 
 
The waveform mask (Figure 5) displays the main engineering parameters of the 
waveforms, such as uncorrected and corrected peak ground acceleration, velocity, 
displacement, effective duration, Arias intensity, among others. The mask reports the 
applied filter and the band-pass frequencies. The waveforms can be browsed by 
clicking on the arrows on the toolbar, or they can be searched by date, entering the 
time in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) on the upper right corner.  
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Figure 5: waveform mask; the arrows in the toolbar allow to browse among time 
series; the date of the event code can be entered in the upper right corner 
 
 
The data dictionary masks are the descriptions of codes and id’s used in the data 
base. 
 
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3. THE WAB DATA BASE  
 
The web data base has been developed in Mysql. Analogously to the Access data 
base it contains for main “blocks” (events, station, references and waveforms). 
It allows to perform queries in each of the separate blocks, or progressive queries, 
starting from the earthquake parameters and constraining the search with the station 
and waveform parameters.  
The events and the stations are displayed on a geographic map, or on a satellite 
image, with the aid of Google maps, as shown in Figure 6. 
 
 
 
Figure 6: station display on a geographic map, through the connection with Google 
maps 
 
As an example the query to obtain the waveforms recorded in 1980, with PGA 
exceeding 150gal, is reported. 
The query starts selecting the date of the event, that is 1980. All the events recorded 
in 1980 are listed, as shown in Figure 7. The query goes on accepting all the recording 
stations, as shown in Figure 8. The last constraint is the PGA value. In Figure 9 the 
result of the query is the list of all waveform with the requested characteristics.  
The acceleration time-series and the response spectra can be displayed with the aid 
of a Java application as shown in Figure 10. 
 
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