Toward a Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system: The case of
[1] UNESCO has made a commitment to the scientific community for the creation of the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean Tsunami Warning System (NEAMTWS). We wonder: ‘‘Is the European Seismological community ready to run an Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system?’ ’ In this study we use the Feb...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.474.4365 http://www.saferproject.net/doc/publications_general/Olivieri3_Toward_a_Euro_Mediterranean_tsunami_warning_system.pdf |
| Summary: | [1] UNESCO has made a commitment to the scientific community for the creation of the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean Tsunami Warning System (NEAMTWS). We wonder: ‘‘Is the European Seismological community ready to run an Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system?’ ’ In this study we use the February 12, 2007 Ml = 6.1 earthquake, which occurred close to the epicenter of the 1755 Great Lisbon event, as a case study to verify and discuss our actual capability of alerting for a hypothetical tsunami. Starting from the available real-time data and tools, we emulate an automatic real-time processing to perform the source analyses needed for discriminating a tsunamigenic earthquake, and subsequently we evaluate the time shift between the release of results and the potential tsunami waterfront reaching the coasts. Citation: Olivieri, M., and |
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