GFZ German research centre for geo sciences

MARsite

New Directions in Seismic Hazard Assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the Marmara Supersit

Long-term monitoring experiment in geologically active regions of Europe prone to natural hazards: the Supersite concept

Start: 1 November 2012
Project Coordinator: Prof.Dr. Nurcan Meral Özel, KOERI

MARsite aims to improve the seismic hazard and risk assessment for the densely populated Marmara region by long-term, multi-disciplinary monitoring activities - both on land and in the sea - related to the earthquake generation processes. GFZ will work on the following themes: Improvement of in-situ fluid measurement systems (wp2),  geodetic monitoring of crustal deformation (wp3), microseismic monitoring of the eastern Marmara seismic gap (wp4), analysis of the response of near-surface geology to earthquake ground motion and its effects on masking source-related information derived from borehole data (wp4), simulation of earthquake/tsunami scenarios for the Marmara Sea region (wp5), improvement of rapid finite source inversion tools (wp5), and the development of new procedures for the real-time estimation of the effective shaking of a building (wp9).

WP 2 Land based long-term multi-disciplinary continuous monitoring

KOERI, GFZ, TUBITAK, IFREMER, INGV,
WP Leader: KOU Paolo Favale, INGV
Task 2   In-situ measurement of fluid expulsions using   existing/improved systems   TUBITAK, INGV, KOU  
Task Leader: Heiko Woith ,GFZ

Task 3   Integration of real-time networks data for   Marmara area   KOERI, GFZ (Birger G. Lühr), INGV, KOU  
Task Leader: Onur Tan, TUBITAK

WP 3 Long-term Continuous Geodetic Monitoring of Crustal Deformation

KOERI, GFZ, TUBITAK, INGV, IU, ITU, CNR (ISMAR-IREA), BRGM, sarmap
WP Leader: S.A. Semih Ergintav, TUBITAK
Task 4  Separation of the regional and local deformation   processes and modelling
TUBITAK, IU, ITU, KOERI, INGV 
Task Leader:Thomas Walter, GFZ

WP 4 Establishment of Borehole Observation System and High Resolution Seismic Studies in the Marmara Sea

KOERI, GFZ, TUBITAK, IU, CNRS, Guralp Systems Ltd.
WP Leader: Oguz Özel, IU
Task 1   Deployment of surface microearthquake array and borehole seismometers and integrating of borehole   and surface array data for better location of microearthquakes  Guralp, GFZ, TUBITAK
Task Leader: Oguz Özel, IU
Task 2   Analyzing response of near-surface geology to   earthquake ground  motion and its effects masking the   source related information through borehole data  IU   Task Leader: Stefano Parolai, GFZ
Task 4   High resolution seismology in MarmaraSea with   arrays   GFZ (Georg Dresen, Marco Bohnhoff), CNRS, TUBITAK) 
Task Leader: Mustafa Aktar, KOERI

WP 5 Real- and quasi-real-time Earthquake &Tsunami Hazard Monitoring

KOERI, GFZ, TUBITAK, INGV, IU, BRGM
WP Leader: Nurcan M. Özel, KOERI
Task 2   Near real-time determination of the earthquake   finite fault source parameters and models, based on GPS and strong motion data KOERI, GFZ (Rongjiang Wang), BRGM, IU
Task Leader: A. Piatanesi, INGV
Task 4   Creating a scenario database of earthquake   triggered tsunamis and testing of the routine with   well-studied events   GFZ (Oliver Heidbach), INGV, BRGM
Task Leader: Nurcan M. Özel, KOERI

WP 9 Early Warning and Development of the Real-time shake and loss information

KOERI, GFZ, TUBITAK, IU, EUCENTRE, INERIS, AMRA
WP Leader: Mustafa Erdik, KOERI
Task 1 Improvement of risk assessment in Istanbul with   incorporation of new data, techniques and methodologies  EUCENTRE, GFZ (Claus Milkereit)
Task Leader: Mustafa Erdik, KOERI

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