Seismic Rapid Response System in the Eastern Pyrenees

Abstract eng:
The seismic information systems at the present time in Europe are limited in the amount of provided useful information. With the purpose of improving this situation a demonstrative Regional Automatic Seismic Damage Information system (ISARD project) has been developed on the Eastern Pyrenees (some Provinces in Spain, a French Department and Andorra). A real time system based on a VSAT seismic Broad Band network has been developed first in Catalonia (Spain) and is now operational in an extended region, with 3 new accelerometric stations in France, 1 in Andorra and a total of 19 stations for the seismic network. The system can generate automatically a few minutes after the earthquake an informative note with the estimation of the possible damages to building stock and affected population for Civil Defence crisis managers. The scenarios are defined following vulnerability assessment methodologies applied to the municipality scale using GIS techniques. This automatic seismic information system can contribute to enhance the management of the crisis and sharing of each country’s first-aid organizations according to a cross-border coherent evaluation of damages.

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