NERIES

Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology (http://www.neries-eu.org/)

NERIES is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) project in the Sixth Framework Program (FP6) of the European Commission (EC), aiming at networking the European seismic networks, improving access to data, allowing access to specific seismic infrastructures and pursuing targeted research developing the next generation of tools for improved service and data analysis.

NERIES started in June of 2006 and will end mid 2010. The total budget is 12M Euro, distriuted over 24 partner institutions. NERIES is coordinated by ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology). The NERIES Project Office, which executes the daily managements of the project, is situated at KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) in The Netherlands. The coordinator of NERIES is Domenico Giardini, head of the Swiss Seismological Service and Professor of Geophysics at ETH Zurich.

NERIES involves a number of Networking, Transnational Access and Joint Research activities, and the SED is participating in several of them. The Statistical Seismology group is specifically involved in JRA2: Real-time hazard tools, where we develop new approaches to time-dependent earthquake hazard assessment and earthquake forecasting in the Euro-Med region.  As part of this activity, we are setting up the CSEP EU Testing Center, which represents the European node of the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP).

We are also involved in JRA5, data mining tools, where we are working on modern tools for data exchange, such as QuakeML and QuakePy  and parametric data mining. One product of this effort will be MapSeis, a Matlab based toolbox to analyse microseismicity (the successor of ZMAP).

Figure 1: Forecast model ALM by Gulia et al (submitted to the Annals  of Geophysics Special Issue om the Italian Testing Region of CSEP).