Highlights

MARsite

New Directions in Seismic Hazard Assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the Marmara Supersite

The project will coordinate research groups with different scientific skills in a comprehensive monitoring activity developed both in the Marmara Sea and in the surrounding urban and country areas.

Starting date: 01/09/2012
Duration: 36 months
Official webpage http://marsite.eu/

Short abstract

MARSite aims assessing the “state of the art” of seismic risk evaluation and management at European level to establish a starting point to move a “step forward” towards new concepts of risk mitigation and management by long-term monitoring activities carried out both on land and at sea.

MARSite will coordinate research groups with different scientific skills in a comprehensive monitoring activity developed both in the Marmara Sea and in the surrounding urban and country areas. The project plans to coordinate initiatives to collect multidisciplinary data, to be shared, interpreted and merged in consistent theoretical and practical models suitable for the implementation of good practices to move the necessary information to the end users.

In this perspective, to improve the understanding of and preparedness for geological disasters, the existing monitoring capabilities in the Marmara region indicate a strong need for a European initiative.

MARsite plans to coordinate initiatives of important European partners focused on: the collection multidisciplinary data; their dissemination, interpretation and fusion to produce consistent theoretical and practical models; following good practices so as to provide the necessary information to end users; and updating seismic hazard and risk evaluations in the region, particularly in Istanbul.

To fulfil the requirements of the EC call, MARsite identifies a number of objectives that drive its implementation, the definition of the activities and the composition of the consortium.

List of work packages:
WP 1 Coordination and project management
WP 2 Land based long-based multidisciplinary monitoring
WP 3 Long-term continous geodetic monitoring of crustal deformation
WP 4 Establishment of Borehole Observation System and High Resolution Seismic Studies in the Marmara Sea
WP 5 Real- and quasi-real-time earthquake and tsunami hazard monitoring
WP 6 Earthquake-induced landslide hazard in Marmara
WP 7 Re-evaluation of the seismo-tectonics of the Marmara Region
WP 8 Monitoring seismicity and fluid activity near the fault using existing cabled and autonomous multipa
WP 9 Early Warning and Development of the Real-time shake and loss information   
WP10 Integration of data management practices and coordination with ongoing research infrastructures
WP 11 Dissemination

RISSC is involved in WP 4