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The SubCommission on Paleoseismicity: Methods Criteria and Dating, following the suggestion of the Executive Committee elected in Cairns, will adopt the intercongress period 2007-2001 the new definition of "Focus Area on Paleosismicity and Active Tectonics". It aims at promoting methodological studies on seismically-induced environmental effects through paleoseismological research.

A network of more than 80 geologists, seismologists and engineers with expertise in this sector is connected by this focus area, encouraging scientific exchange and collaborative efforts.
The structure of the Focus Area is composed by one President and three Vice Presidents. The Scientific Secretary is based in ISPRA.

 

What's new?

  • The  5th Project Meeting  will be held in the frame of the XIX INQUA Congress, in Bern (Switzerland) in the period 20-27 July 2011. A special session will be sponsored by the INQUA Project #0811, titled “ Paleoseismology, megacities, and critical social infrastructures”.
    This session invites contributions investigating the Quaternary records of earthquake environmental effects and surface faulting, which are the subject of the INQUA Project #0811, case histories of the geological assessment of ground shaking / ground rupture for cities and industries located on Quaternary sediments, and their implications for the safety of existing or planned critical facilities, such as Nuclear Power Plants.
    Deadline for abstract submission: 30 November 2010.
  • Another project meeting will be held in the frame of the 2nd INQUA-IGCP567 Workshop on Active Tectonics, Earthquake Geology, Archaeology and Engineering, Corinth (Greece) in the period 19 - 24 September 2011. Similarly to the 1st INQUA-IGCP Workshop (Baelo Claudia 2009), this workshop will be thematic and will include invited speakers, oral presentations, discussions and posters, as well as a 2 day field trip in the active Corinth Gulf area.
    Deadline for abstract submission: 15 May 2011.
  • The compilation fo the EEE Catalogue is still in progress. Validated records are available at http://www.eeecatalog.sinanet.apat.it/earthquakelist.php. All participants are kindly requested to contribute to the implementation of the EEE Catalogue. Of course, each contribute will be acknowledged through a certificate formally issued by the INQUA Focus Area.
    We remind the procedure for web implementation:
    1) go to http://www.eeecatalog.sinanet.apat.it/admin/login.php
    2) register
    3) send an email to the Scientific Secretary (inquascale@isprambiente.it) providing the list of earthquakes you are going to complile. For more information, please read the guidelines.
  • The EEE Catalogue has provided a first contribute to the GEO supersites initiative, aimed at collecting earth observation data (from satellites as well as in situ) in selected geologically active regions (supersites). In particular, data on environmental effects induced by the 1908 Messina earthquake will be included into the supersite Messina. More information are avaible here.
    A new project for the 2008-2011 Intercongress period

 

A new project for the period 2008-2011

A new project "A global catalogue and mapping of earthquake environmental effects" has been funded by the INQUA Executive Committee for the period 2008-2011. It aims at

  • compiling a global catalogue of earthquake environmental effects;
  • disseminating the ESI 2007 scale in the scientific and technical community.


The activities for 2009 listed in the 2009 Work Plan have been approved by the INQUA Executive Committee.

The project is in continuity with the 2003-2007 INQUA project which ended in Cairns, where the ESI 2007 seismic intensity scale, based only on earthquake environmental effects, has been ratified.

The EEE catalogue will be also a contribute to the GEO initiative, Subtask "Systematic Monitoring for Geohazards Risk Assessment (DI-09-01). For further details go to the 2009-2011 GEOSS Work Plan.

The First Project Meeting was held on August 9, 2008, during the 33 rd International Geological Congress in Oslo.

The Second Project Meeting was held on February 22nd 2009, during the Field Trip Workshop "The Dead Sea Rift as natural laboratory for earthquake behaviour: prehistorical, historical and recent seismicity" (16th - 23rd February, 2009).

The Third Project Meeting was held during the Workshop on Earthquake Archaeology and Paleoseismology in Baelo Claudia Roman ruins, Southern Spain (7th - 13th September, 2009).

The Fourth Project Meeting was held during the EGU 2010 on May 6th 2010 in Vienna.

A report of the CBGA 2010 Session  sponsored by the Focus Area is available here.

For further information, please contact the Scientific Secretary.

 

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