Development of Earthquake Lossmap for Europe

For almost real-time estimation of the losses after a major earthquake in the Euro-Mediterranean region, the Joint Research Area-3 (JRA-3) component of the European Union (EU) Project “Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology – NERIES” foresees (at several levels of sophistication): Finding the most likely location of the source of the earthquake using regional seismotectonic data base; estimation of the spatial distribution of selected site-specific ground motion parameters; correlation/verifyication/enrichment of the estimated ground shaking information with the available on-line strong motion data; and estimation of physical damage and casualty distributions. These LossMaps will provide the required vital information within minutes after an earthquake to European emergency response agencies, in a manner similar to the United States Geological Survey (USGS)'s Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) system. A methodology that incorporates the regional dependencies ...