Project 2009 my: From Earthquake DeformatIon To SHA (EDITH)

Abstract

EDITH proposes to organize and facilitate annual meetings with a wide range of experts in earthquake geology, paleoseismology, geodesy and tectonic geomorphology to gain a better understanding of the earthquake cycle with the final aim to provide constraints to future new SHA geologically-based models.

This will include the generation of a data repository for selected case study earthquake and regions as a measurable output of this project. Scientists on the project will be able to work on the same datasets and to propose collaborations inside the community. The data repository will be published in an appropriate journal(s) and will be made available to the wider academic community.

The Project is structured into three main Topics that will be addressed through the annual meetings.
Topic 1 is focused on the understanding of the earthquake cycle by combining datasets from paleoseismology, space geodesy, InSAR, structural geology and other techniques for the detection of topographic changes.

Topic 2 is focused on determining how to apply measurements from single earthquakes to deformation observed over the longer time periods up to Quaternary and asking the question of whether single earthquakes are representative of the long-term deformation patterns observed. The focus is on earthquake and Quaternary geology, geomorphology and crust modeling.

Topic 3 is the synthesis of the obtained results with the promotion of a final meeting open to a wider audience including SHA modelist and seismologists. This Topic aims to contribute to bridging the gap between the geological/paleoseismological data frame and the data format required by SHA modelers. Presently, many SHA studies, mainly in regions with fault uncomplete databases, do not fully consider potentially seismogenic structures as entry data or do so only sparingly.

Project leaders:

• Franz Livio (Italy)
• Pia Victor (Germany)
• Zoë Mildon (UK)
• Sambit Prasanajit Naik (Republic of Korea)
• Shalev Simantov (Israel)