Toward a Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system: The case of the February 12, 2007, Ml = 6.1 earthquake

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Olivieri, Marco, Scognamiglio, Laura
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Geophysics; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/174536; https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gl031364

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 realâ€time data and tools, we emulate an automatic realâ€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.