Geophysical Research Abstracts
Vol. 12, EGU2010-7730, 2010
EGU General Assembly 2010
© Author(s) 2010
Romanian Complex Data Center for Dense Seismic network
Cristian Neagoe, Constantin Ionescu, and Liviu Marius Manea
National Institute for Earth Physics, Romania (cristian.neagoe@infp.ro)
Since 2002 the National Institute for Earth Physics (NIEP) developed its own real-time digital seismic network:
consisting of 96 seismic stations of which 35 are broadband sensors and 24 stations equipped with short period
sensors and two arrays earthquakes that transmit data in real time at the National Data Center (NDC) and Eforie
Nord (EFOR) Seismic Observatory. EFOR is the back-up for the NDC and also a monitoring center for Black Sea
tsunamis.
Seismic stations are equipped with Quanterra Q330 and K2 digitizers, broadband seismometers (STS2, CMG40T,
CMG 3ESP, CMG3T) and acceleration sensors Episensor Kinemetrics (+ / - 2G).
SeedLink who is a part of Seiscomp2.5 and Antelope are software packages used for acquisition in real time
(RT) and for data exchange. Communication of digital seismic stations to the National Data Center in Bucharest
and Seismic Observatory Eforie Nord is assured by 5 providers (GPRS, VPN, satellite radio and Internet
communication).
For acquisition and data processing at the two centers of reception and processing is used AntelopeTM 4.11
running on 2 workstations: one for real-time and other for offline processing and also a Seiscomp 3 server that
works as back-up for Antelope 4.11
Both acquisition and analysis of seismic data systems produced information about local and global parameters of
earthquakes, in addition Antelope is used for manual processing (association events, the calculation of magnitude,
creating a database, sending seismic bulletins, calculation of PGA and PGV , etc.), generating ShakeMap products
and interacts with global data centers.
In order to make all this information easily available across the Web and also lay the grounds for a more modular
and flexible development environment the National Data Center developed tools to enable centralizing of data
from software such as Antelope which is using a dedicated database system ( Datascope, a database system based
on text files ) to a more general-purpose database, MySQL which acts like a hub between the different acquisition
and analysis systems used in the data center while also providing better connectivity at no expense in security.
Mirroring certain data to MySQL also allows the National Data Center to easily share information to the public
via the new application which is being developed and also mix in data collected from the public (e.g. information
about the damages observed after an earthquake which intern is being used to produce macroseismic intensity
indices which are then stored in the database and also made available via the web application). For internal usage
there is also a web application which using data stored in the database displays earthquake information like
location, magnitude and depth in semi-real-time thus aiding the personnel on duty.
Another usage for the collected data is to create and maintain contact lists to which the datacenter sends
notifications (SMS and emails) based on the parameters of the earthquake.
For future development, amongst others the Data Center plans to develop the means to crosscheck the generated
data between the different acquisition and analysis systems (e.g. comparing data generated by Antelope with data
generated by Seiscomp).