Abstract
Europe and its surroundings operate an impressive number of seismometers and accelerometers, accommodating high and lower quality sensors, permanent and mobile stations, land-based and ocean bottom systems. The equipment and observatories are largely funded by national resources and priorities. Recently a number of initiatives, among them NERIES , have accomplished a significant step towards integrating this diverse network into a homogeneous real-time network, data archival and data access facility, thus providing a powerful research tool for future earth science research and hazard assessment.
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The described infrastructure is a joint initiative of many observatories and research institutes, among others cited in ORFEUS VEBSN contributors (http://www.orfeus-eu.org/Data-info/vebsn-contributors.html) and the European-Mediterranean observatories (http://www.orfeus-eu.org/Links/euromed.html). We thank John Douglas for critical remarks improving the paper.
NERIES is an EC funded project under contract RII3-CT-2006-026130.
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van Eck, T., Giardini, D., Sleeman, R., Dost, B. (2011). Integrating the European Observational Seismology Infrastructure: NERIES Developments. In: Akkar, S., Gülkan, P., van Eck, T. (eds) Earthquake Data in Engineering Seismology. Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0152-6_13
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