Large earthquake faulting and implications for the seismic hazard assessment in europe: the izmit-duzce earthquake sequence of august-november 1999(turkey, mw 7.4, 7.1)

Project Information

RELIEF

Grant agreement ID: EVG1-CT-2002-00069

Project closed

Start date 1 December 2002

End date 30 November 2005

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Total cost € 1 445 450,00

EU contribution € 810 051,00

Coordinated by

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA
Italy

Objective

Recently, two destructive earthquakes (Mw 7.4 Mw 7.3) with 170-km of surface faulting devastated a large region of Western Turkey. Different international research groups have initiated preliminary studies but field data collection and analysis are needed. The RELIEF proposal consists of mainly field investigations in the epicentre area that aims to cover different disciplines from Pale seismology, Physics of the Source and Engineering Seismology. These large earthquakes represent a unique natural laboratory and the only opportunity to test our present understanding of the earthquake process and refine our current seismic-hazard models. These models are nowadays necessary for the development and application of seismic hazard approaches. Database collection will be disseminated by means of maps and reports (websites and GIS).

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › geology › seismology
• social sciences › sociology › governance › crisis management

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-7. - RTD activities of a generic nature

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via di Vigna Murata 605 ; 00143 ROMA ; Italy
• Total cost: No data

Participants (5)

BRUNEL UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Kingston Lane ; UB8 3PH UXBRIDGE
• Total cost: No data

SGA STORIA GEOFISICA AMBIETE

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Bellombre, 24/2 ; 40136 BOLOGNA
• Total cost: No data

SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZUERICH

Switzerland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: ETH Hoengerberg ; 8093 ZURICH
• Total cost: No data

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ISTANBUL

Türkiye

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: ITU Madden Facultesi ; 80626 ISTANBUL
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN

Norway

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 41,Allegatan 41 ; 5007 BERGEN
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