Objective Foreseen ResultsEmphasis will be placed on the development of methodology suitable for the extended monitoring of gas composition on-site, supported by laboratory determinations to validate the field data where necessary.Monitoring of local climatic conditions and seismic activity will be necessary, as well as investigation of other parameters with the potential to affect gas composition, such as the effects of Earth Tides.Finally, permanent base stations will be established, in order to have continuous and real time monitoring, storage, and transmission via satellite of the field data to scientific centers for subsequent automatic processing and indication of alert thresholds.This proposal is related to one of the most important geophysical problems related to the estimation and prognosis of a seismic event. The solution of this geophysical problem is connected to the evaluation of the whole line of economical and social problems of people living in seismic active regions.The tensional properties of the earth's crust, which are showing up at large intervals, will be recorded and encountered by means of sophisticated geophysical methods and equipment.Gases emanating from soils above fault zones in seismically-active areas contain the principal atmospheric gases nitrogen and oxygen, accompanied by varying amounts of carbon dioxide, radon, thoron, helium, argon, hydrogen, and methane. The main part of this gas mixture is generally considered to emanate from degassing sources at relatively shallow depth, but deeper-seated provenances are thought to be responsible for much of the helium, methane and hydrogen. The underlying reasons for the apparent surface variation in gas composition are not wholly understood, and it is therefore proposed to collect soil-gas data over long periods at one or more recognized seismically-active localities in Greece, Russia, Armenia, and Albania, as a preliminary to establishing a capability for earthquake prediction based on variations in soil gas composition.Information obtained from these surveys will be compared with data from on-going parallel studies in Greece where all data will be collected via satellite in real time. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrynoble gasesengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologysocial sciencessociologysocial issuesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismologynatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds Programme(s) FP4-INCO - Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of cooperation with third countries and international organizations, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 01020201 - Earthquakes Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS EU contribution No data Address Panepistimioupolis ilissia 15784 Zographos, athens Greece See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Center of Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration Albania EU contribution No data Address 9,billoku vasil shanto Tirana See on map Total cost No data Geological Technological Scientific Inductional Enterprise Russia EU contribution No data Address 93a,pogodina street 143 300 moscow See on map Total cost No data Institute of Physics of the Earth - Russian Academy of Sciences Russia EU contribution No data Address 10,b. gruzinskaya 123810 Moskva See on map Total cost No data NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Murchison house, west mains roads EH9 3LA Edinburgh See on map Total cost No data National Survey for Seismic Protection Armenia EU contribution No data Address 4,davidashen-massiv 375054 yerevan See on map Total cost No data Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry Russia EU contribution No data Address 19,kosygin str. 117975 Moskva See on map Total cost No data