Dear Members of Triggered and Induced Seismicity (TAIS) Community!
As most of you probably know we had the next successful induced seismicity meeting in IASPEI General Assembly in Cape Town (10-16/01/2009). The all day symposium S4 on Induced Seismicity gathered 21 oral and 10 poster presentations. Out of 21 intended talks 20 were provided, the rate which is close to a world record I guess. The first, morning sessions were dominated by mining induced seismicity issues, the afternoon sessions were devoted to reservoir induced and hydrofracturing associating seismicity affairs. You can find all abstracts from the symposium on our TAIS web page (www.tais.agh.edu.pl).
In the last hour of the session time we had a meeting of the Triggered and Induced Seismicity Working Group with kind participation of all interested in TAIS problems. A short information on ongoing activities of the WG was followed by a discussion on the possible future activities.
As you know the main aim and scope of the TAIS WG is the sharing of experience in the monitoring, analysis and interpretation of induced seismicity events under different geological and technological conditions. Three areas of this aim were addressed during our discussion:
I. TAIS web page
We all agreed that launching of the TAIS WG web page (www.tais.agh.edu.pl) was an important step towards integrating our community and we deeply appreciated the excellent work done by Dr. Grzegorz Kwiatek from GFZ Potsdam, who has created and administers the page.
Authors of oral and poster presentations of the S4 symposium were to be approached individually for their presentations to be uploaded to the TAIS web page.
Presently we already have 13 ppt files on the TAIS page.
In order to further improve an information exchange through the TAIS page it was suggested that we could provide links redirecting the TAIS page to our personal web pages.
Please, contact
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if you wished to have such a link.
II. Publications
We all agreed that launching of the TAIS WG web page (www.tais.agh.edu.pl) was an important step towards integrating our community and we deeply appreciated the excellent work done by Dr. Grzegorz Kwiatek from GFZ Potsdam, who has created and administers the page.
Authors of oral and poster presentations of the S4 symposium were to be approached individually for their presentations to be uploaded to the TAIS web page.
Presently we already have 13 ppt files on the TAIS page.
In order to further improve an information exchange through the TAIS page it was suggested that we could provide links redirecting the TAIS page to our personal web pages.
Please, contact
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if you wished to have such a link.
II. Publications
It was suggested that we should identify a place (journal?, section?) where as much as possible of our papers on triggered and induced seismicity could be published. In this way our publication could be less scattered among different locations as they presently are.
As a follow-up of this suggestion I have set a Special Section on Triggered and Induced Seismicity within Acta Geophysica, the Springer’s journal which I am a chief editor. All papers on TAIS subjects are welcomed to this section.
TAIS WG should initiate works aimed at selecting standard or widely-accepted key-words on triggered and induced seismicity issues. An intent of this undertaking is to simplify search for printed materials on particular subjects of the triggered and induced seismicity.
I hope that Dr. Steve Spottiswoode, who proposed this activity, will give it a first push.
III. Meetings
We all agreed that we should continue with separate induced seismicity sessions in next IASPEI symposia, beginning with a IASPEI symposium at the IUGG 2011 in Melbourne.
I am pleased that this idea has been approved firstly by CoSOI commission where TAIS WG belongs to, and then by IASPEI Executive Committee. We shall have a separate session in Melbourne!
It had been planned to have a separate workshop on triggered and induced seismicity in 2010, however those plans were pushed out by a suggestion to have the TAIS session in the Joint AGU meeting in Brazil in 2010.
A program of the joint meeting will be structured in August this year. I shall let you know what has been decided regarding the induced seismicity session.
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).
