Toward a Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system: The case of

• Main Authors: Marco Olivieri, Laura Scognamiglio
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: North East Atlantic
• 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

[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