The goal of TAISWG is to summarize a present state of knowledge about the induced and triggered seismicity processes and to discuss future trends in the field. Its purpose is also to provide an overview of the capabilities and limitations of current monitoring techniques and interpretation methods as applied to triggered earthquakes to assess and mitigate the seismic hazard.
TAIS Working Group is a part of IASPEI Commission on Seismological Observation and Interpretation, CoSOI (current list of group members can be found here).
The technological response to increasing needs for energy and minerals results also in appearance of induced seismicity in previously aseismic areas;
Strong seismic events caused by human technological activity are dangerous for people, technical devices, and infrastructure objects;
The problems of estimation, prediction and mitigation of the hazards implied by induced seismicity have not found satisfactory solutions;
The present unsatisfactory level of understanding of the hazards implied by induced seismicity results partially from insufficient integration of research groups in the field,
we propose to initiate TEAMWORK FOR HAZARD ESTIMATION FOR TRIGGERED AND INDUCED SEISMICITY (THETAIS). THETAIS will be a virtual centre team to study all aspects of the seismic hazard due to triggered and induced seismicity. Presently, research groups dealing with induced seismicity are organized around technological processes that originate the seismicity. THETAIS initiative is intended to group scientists and industrial representatives in virtual research centers defined by specific scientific problems, which are common regardless the processes that cause seismicity. Cooperation within the teamwork will be supported by modern IT.
Some details describing THETAIS initiative are presented in the attached document.
The first open meeting of TEAMWORK FOR HAZARD ESTIMATION FOR TRIGGERED AND INDUCED SEISMICITY will take place during the ESC General Assembly A in Montpellier on Thursday, Sept. 9th at 12:00 (room Barthez, level 2). All interested are welcomed.
Please have a look into the email I (and possibly many of you) received today. I encourage you to undersign the open letter to the President of the Italian Republic and support our colleagues.
Dear colleagues and friends,
Two weeks ago the L’Aquila Prosecutor’s office indicted of manslaughter the members of the National High Risk Committee that met in L'Aquila one week before the Mw6.3 earthquake. The charges are for failing to provide a short term alarm to the population before the earthquake struck, killing more than 300 people. The president of INGV, Enzo Boschi (member of the High Risk Committee), and the director of the National Earthquake Center, Giulio Selvaggi (just accompanying Boschi to the meeting as technical specialist), are among the scientists in seismology and earthquake engineering now under investigation together with some civil protection officials.
The aim of the ECGS-FKPE Workshop on „Induced Seismicity“ is to bring together leading scientists that work in this field. In contrast to similar workshops on this theme, we want to bring together mainly academic researchers as well as representatives from state geological surveys or state earthquake onitoring agencies. A special volume of the Cahiers du Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie will be published with extended abstracts to be printed just before the meeting).
Teamwork for Hazard Estimation for Triggered and Induced Seismicity - Folder
Tentative program of session on Induced Seismicity (S4) (605)