Projects of Section 2.1

Coworkers of Section 2.1 are working on the following projects.

ADNR

To analyse the local amplification effect on seismic signals depending on site conditions, several tools have been developed and published by the GFZ Potsdam.

Armutlu
Evolution of seismicity at the western end of the 1999 Izmit rupture

Ten major earthquakes with magnitudes above Ms > 6.5 migrated along the North-Anatolian fault zone (NAFZ) between 1939 and 1999. The western end of the 1999 Izmit earthquake rupture is located south of Istanbul next to the northern shoreline of the Armutlu Peninsula depicted by distinct clusters of micro-seismic activity........

Central Asia
Cross-Border Natural Disaster Prevention in Central Asia

This project aims to contribute to seismic risk reduction in the region. It has been initiated by the Federal Foreign Office Germany, InWEnt and the Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum.

DPC-INGV
Seismological projects DPC-INGV 2007-2009

The main objective of this Project is to make available through the Internet an updated and improved release of the Italian accelometer database (ITACA), originally developed within project S6, in the framework of the 2004-2006 DPC-INGV agreement....

EDIM
Earthquake Disaster Information –system for the Marmara Region, Turkey (EDIM)

The Section 2.1 Earthquake Risk and Early Warning is involved in the Earthquake Disaster Information –system for the Marmara Region, Turkey (EDIM), project.

EMCA
The Earthquake Model Central Asia

The Earthquake Model Central Asia (EMCA) is the GEM regional program, coordinated by the GFZ......

GEOSIM
Graduate school for Explorative Simulation of Earth Sciences

GEOSIM is a new graduate research school funded by the Helmholtz association and grants....

Ground Motions
Quantification of extreme ground-motions

The understanding and modeling of ground motions related to earthquake ruptures is of major importance for seismic hazard analysis. I

LAMAS
Large scale intrusion, lateral magma reservoir growth and stress field changes at Lazufre volcano, Chile

Collapsed calderas are the morphological and structural surface expression of magma reservoirs that emptied during large volcanic eruptions and may reach diameters of tens of kilometers. Abundant remnants of such collapse.....

MATRIX
New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe

Natural hazards and risks are often assessed individually by scientists, engineers and civil protection authorities. This is despite the fact that different hazards.......

Megathrust earthquake cycle

Convergent plate boundaries at continental margins belong to the tectonically most active areas on earth and are the potential source of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. While the bulk of strain accumulation......

MIIC
MIIC – Monitoring and Imaging based on Interferometric Concepts

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a new field in seismology (Courtland, 2008). New concepts from mesoscopic physics have dramatically changed the seismologists’ view on ambient noise and seismic coda. Being disturbing signals that hinder the detection of earthquakes only six years ago these wave fields become a major source of information that is used with seismic interferometry.

NERA WP4 and WP11
Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation

The overall aim of NERA is to achieve a measurable improvement and a long-term impact in the assessment and reduction of the vulnerability of constructions and citizens to earthquakes. NERA wil..

PROGRESS A2
Subtopic A2: Geophysical monitoring technologies

PROGRESS B3
Seismic Hazard- and Risk Dynamics

Realistic models of seismicity serve as an essential ingredient for the calculation of ground movement and finally the seismic risk. The aim of this project is the monitoring .........

RHINE
Virtual Lower Rhine Embayment

The project aims at understanding the earthquake interactions within fault networks in order to improve seismic hazard estimations. For the test region Lower Rhine Embayment (LRE), Germany...

Megacity
Risk Habitat Megacity

Site effect characterization by means of seismic noise and earthquake analysis in large urban areas of Santiago de Chile.....

SAFER
Seismic eArly warning For EuRope

TOPOMOD
Subtopic ESR 7: Exploring the topography time scale in volcanic rifts

TOPOMOD is a training project designed for a team of early-stage and experienced researchers to investigate and model the origin and evolution of topography of the continents over a wide rang......

Tsunami Training Courses
Tsunami Training Courses, an GITEWS Project, Workpackage WP6100 (GFZ)

Indonesia is currently establishing the Indonesian Tsunami Warning System (InaTWS) in co-operation with several international partners; especially Germany who is contributing via the GITEWS project (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System).

Volcano
Volcano-Stress

Volcano-tectonic Interactions: Testing the influence and development of stress in volcano edifices