Belgrade, 22 February 2013

NATO Science for Peace and Security ProgrammePublic Diplomacy Division

Improvements in the Harmonized Seismic Hazard Mapsfor the Western Balkan Countries, 2nd Workshop | SfP 984374 | Zeynep Gülerce, NPD

Main Issues:

Project Visibility

Equipment Purchase and Locations

BiH Contribution: NATO SfP Desicion and Possible Outcomes

WP3 Assignments and Workshop

Training on Strong Motion Data Processing and Filtering & OHAZ

Summary of the future plan for WP1 and WP2

Project Web-site

Special Session in SE-50EEE

NATO Info Day at Podgorica

Project Website: http://www.wbalkanseismicmaps.org/

Project Website: http://www.wbalkanseismicmaps.org/

Special Session on International Conference on Earthquake Engineering - 29 to 31 May 2013 -

Skopje

Title: Seismic Hazard Maps for the Western Balkan Countries

Conveners: (To be decided soon)Number of oral presentations: 6 (additional poster presentations might be expected)

Oral presentations (tentative): Overview of the project activities and future work (to be presented

by Dr. Zeynep Gülerce, Turkey) BSHAP Earthquake catalogue and improvements (to be presented

by Slavica Radovanovic, Serbia) Croatian Fault-plane solutions (fps) database and re-calibration of

magnitude scales for the Croatian seismographic network (to be presented by Dr. Marian Herak, Croatia)

Strong Ground Motion Network and Database (to be presented by Radmila Salic, Macedonia)

Seismic Source Characterization (to be presented by Jadranka Mihaljevic, Montenegro)

Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Maps for Western Balkans (to be presented by Dr. Neki Kuka, Albania)

NATO Info Day in Montenegro

Presentation by Ms. Jadranka Mihaljević on SPS Project ‘Improvements in the Harmonized Seismic Hazard Maps for the Western Balkan Countries’.

Seismic BB stations Quantity

Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 Croatia 5 Montenegro 3

Total 13Strong motion stations Quantity

Albania 10 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7 Croatia 2 Macedonia 13 Montenegro 3 Serbia 11

Total 36

Harmonization of Seismic Hazard Maps for the Western Balkan Countries| NATO SfP 983054|

Equipment Purchase List:1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Country Budget for Equipment Purchase (EURO)

Number of Strong Motion Recorders

BB Brand for SGM Recorders

Brand for BB Recorders

Technical Details

Albania 8000

2 Trident Digitizers

- Nanometrics -

These digitizers will be used to transmit continuously in real-time the SM data (CMG-5T sensors) via our Nanometrics Libra VSAT.

Croatia 8500 2 - Guralp - CMG-5TD

Macedonia 16000

Montenegro

16000 2 accelerometers + 1 high

resolution recorder + equipment

-

Geotech (EU representative 2M

Systems B.V. Netherland

-

Triaxial accelerometer, model PA-23, full scale ± 4g, sensitivity 2.5v/g;High resolution recorder SMART 24R

Serbia 18000 (20500)-

Digitizer + 1 BB

seismometerKinemetrics

Triaxial seismometer PBB 200S + 6 chanel digitizer Q330Notes:

Installation, site preparation, instrument testing and connection to the national seismological network is not included in these budgets!A little increase in the budget might be expected since BiH equipment budget is cancelled.

Proposed Locations for the New Equipment:

Albania intents to buy two additional Nanometrics Trident digitizers in order to install two of the five remained CMG-5T sensors in two other VSAT stations (where?)

Macedonia did not yet decided on the number of SM instruments, station sites and assurance of additional budget for construction of facilities to accommodate SM instruments.

Montenegro is planning to add one of new triaxial accelerometers to already existing weak motion station (using existing recorder). The other new accelerometer and recorder will be placed in Glavica, in vicinity to Danilovgrad (app. lat 42.553, long.19.095).

For Croatia and Serbia nothing is provided in the report!

Additional Items: BiH Contribution

Contacts to NATO SfP Office Representatives Ms. Deniz Berdan and Mr. Eyüp Turmus (September/October 2012)

NATO SfP Office Representative level discussions with BiH NATO delegates (November 2012)

NATO BiH delegate efforts (Until February 2013)

Desicion of NATO SfP Office (February 2013) : BiH Co-director Mr. Hrvatovic will be hired as independent

expert.

Possible Outcomes: Equipment budget of BiH might be added to equipment budget of

other participants (16.000 Euro) Remaining budget might be used for contribution (time and travels)

of Mr. Hrvatovic. WP3 leader country should be assigned (Mr. Hrvatovic will be

contributing as independent expert) Re-schedule of workshops and meetings

Project Coordination: Planned WG Meetings and Workshops

Two workshops for Earthquake Catalog Compilation WG in Serbia and Croatia (September 2013)

Two WG Meetings for the Accelometric Databank in Montenegro (2013) and Macedonia (2014)

Seismic Source Characterization Workshop in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2013) Montenegro (January 2014)

Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment WG Meeting in Albania (May 2014)

Closing workshop in Turkey (September 2014)

6 meetings and 1 closing workshop

Additional Items: Training for Young Scientists

Training on Strong Motion Data Processing and Filtering in Turkey

Prof. Dr. Sinan Akkar and his team

Young scientist who will perform data processing and filtering (ideally one person from each country)

Possible in Summer 2013 (one week training)

Training on PSHA Software and Sensitivity Analysis in Albania

Prof. Dr. Neki Kuka and Jadranka Mihaljevic

Young scientist who will perform PSHA runs (one young scentists from Turkey will be trained and perform sensitivity )

Possible in Summer 2013 (two week training)

Plan for the WP2 future activities: Step

Task By Date

1 Draft flatfile including metadata should be compiled

Macedonia

15 May 2013

2 Compiled flatfile should be compared with available public datasets for missing information + some statistics should be provided

Macedonia

1 July 2013

3 Possibilities of collaboration for digitization and processing should be explored

Turkey 15 August, 2013

4 Candidate GMPEs should be selected (first pool-anything available globally and regionally)

Turkey 15 September, 2013

5 Site characterization data should be added

All 15 August, 2013

6 Raw data format should be decided Macedonia

1 September, 2013

Plan for the WP1 future activities: Step

Task By Date

1 BSHAP-1 catalogue should be updated by reflecting any change after 2010 (the only update is required by Croatia in this meeting)

Croatia 15 May 2013

2 Finalized BSHAP-1 catalogue should be compared to the ISC-GEM catalogue for large events for any discrepancies

Albania 1 July 2013

3 Updates to the BSHAP-1 catalogue for 3.0>M>3.5 earthquakes and any earthquakes occurred between 2010-2012 should be put together using 15 km buffer zones around national borders

Croatia 15 August, 2013

4 Neighbors should check the buffer zones and send updates to Croatia

All 1 September, 2013

5 After the catalogue is finalized, declustering and completeness check should be performed

Serbia 1 November, 2013

6 Method of updating the catalog in the future should be proposed

Macedonia

1 September, 2013

Thank you