A prototype system for earthquake early-warning and alert management in southern Italy

Iannaccone G., Zollo A., Elia L., Convertito V., Satriano C., Martino C., Festa G., Lancieri M., Bobbio A., Stabile T. A., Vassallo M., Emolo A.

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 8(5) pp.1105-1129, 2010 | doi: 10.1007/s10518-009-9131-8

ABSTRACT:

The Irpinia Seismic Network (ISNet) is deployed in Southern Apennines along the active fault system responsible for the 1980, November 23, M_S 6.9 Campania–Lucania earthquake. It is set up by 28 stations and covers an area of about 100 × 70 km² . Each site is equipped with a 1-g full-scale accelerometer and a short-period velocimeter. Due to its design characteristics, i.e., the wide dynamic range and the high density of stations, the ISNet network is mainly devoted to estimating in real-time the earthquake location and magnitude from low- to high- magnitude events, and to providing ground-motion parameters values so to get some insights about the ground shaking expected. Moreover, the availability of high- quality of data allows studying the source processes related to the seismogenetic structures in the area. The network layout, the data communication system and protocols and the main instrumental features are described in the paper. The data analysis is managed by Earthworm software package that also provides the earthquake location while custom software has been developed for real-time computation of the source parameters and shaking maps. Technical details about these procedures are given in the article. The data collected at the ISNet stations are available upon request.