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State-of-the art and future of earthquake early warning in the European region

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European researchers and seismic networks are active in developing new approaches to earthquake early warning (EEW), implementing and operating test EEW systems, and in some cases, offering operational EEW to end users. We present the key recent developments in EEW research in Europe, describe the networks and regions where EEW is currently in testing or development, and highlight the two systems in Turkey and Romania that currently provide operational systems to a limited set of end users.

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Acknowledgments

The EEW efforts described in this paper were partly carried out within REAKT with funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007–2013] under Grant Agreement No. 282862. We thank Carlo Cauzzi, Yannik Behr, Dino Bindi and Maren Boese for their advice and comments on preparing the manuscript. Two anonymous reviewers provided thoughtful comments that improved the manuscript.

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  1. Swiss Seismological Service (SED), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    John Clinton

  2. University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Aldo Zollo

  3. National Institute of Research and Development for Earth Physics, Bucharest, Romania

    Alexandru Marmureanu

  4. Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI), Istanbul, Turkey

    Can Zulfikar

  5. Geoforschungszentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Stefano Parolai

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Clinton, J., Zollo, A., Marmureanu, A. et al. State-of-the art and future of earthquake early warning in the European region. Bull Earthquake Eng 14, 2441–2458 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-016-9922-7

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