08.07.2016: How can earthquake shaking in Europe be predicted? This question is in focus of EPOS, the European Plate Observing System. A prerequisite is first of all to bring together todays and future data and data products and to make them readily available. How to implement this was discussed on last week’s EPOS meeting at the Wissenschaftsetage Potsdam.

Different geoscientific institutions have different data and data products on earthquake induced shaking available. To bring these institutions and involved scientists together is a first step towards making the data available.

As soon as the data are available models are to be defined to predict future earthquake shaking. Until 2018 these models shall be established. Currently the program is in the infrastructure prepatory phase. The meeting was convened by Prof. Fabrice Cotton, Head of section Seismic Hazard and Stress Field, and Dr. Dino Bindi from the same section. (ak)

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