Objective This project concerns the development of a European seismic hazard research facility articulated around an in site laboratory. It includes deep boreholes intersecting active faults and designed for obtaining data on the physics of earthquakes and on fault mechanisms as well as on seismic wave propagation in order to improve present earthquake hazards mitigation procedures. Particular emphasis will be placed on documenting the role of fluids on fault behaviour and the role of earthquake faulting on regional hydrogeology. The site is located in the Gulf of Corinth which is presently the fastest opening continental rift in the world with an opening rate of the order of 1.5 cm per year and the tilting and uplifting of its southern shore at a rate which reaches locally 1 mm/y. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologyhydrogeologynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismology Programme(s) FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.4.-9. - Support for research infrastructures Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS EU contribution No data Address Place Jussieu 4 Tour 24 75252 Paris France See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ECOLE NATIONALE DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES France EU contribution No data Address Av. Blaise Pascal 6-8 77455 MARNE LA VALLEE See on map Total cost No data GEOFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM POTSDAM Germany EU contribution No data Address Telegrafenberg A17 14473 GROSS GLIENICKE POTSDAM See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU PETROLE France EU contribution No data Address Avenue de Bois-Préau 1-4 92852 RUEIL MALMAISON See on map Total cost No data NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Greece EU contribution No data Address Panepistimioupolis Ilissia 15784 ZOGRAPHOS, ATHENS See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE DE DROIT D'ECONOMIE ET DES SCIENCES D'AIX-MARSEILLE III France EU contribution No data Address RD 543 Europole Méditerranéen de l'Arbois 13545 GARDANNE See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA Italy EU contribution No data Address Corso Italia 55 95129 CATANIA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address West Mains Road Kings Buildings EH9 3JW EDINBURGH See on map Total cost No data University of Patras Greece EU contribution No data Address University Campus 261 10 PATRAS See on map Total cost No data