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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,
VOL. 34,
L24309,
6 PP., 2007
doi:10.1029/2007GL031364
Toward a Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system: The case of the February 12, 2007, Ml = 6.1 earthquake
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
UNESCO has made a commitment to the scientific community for the creation of the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean Tsunami Warning System (NEAMTWS). We wonder: “Is the European Seismological community ready to run an Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system?” In this study we use the February 12, 2007 Ml = 6.1 earthquake, which occurred close to the epicenter of the 1755 Great Lisbon event, as a case study to verify and discuss our actual capability of alerting for a hypothetical tsunami. Starting from the available real-time data and tools, we emulate an automatic real-time processing to perform the source analyses needed for discriminating a tsunamigenic earthquake, and subsequently we evaluate the time shift between the release of results and the potential tsunami waterfront reaching the coasts.
Received 23 July 2007; accepted 29 October 2007; published 27 December 2007.
Citation: (2007), Toward a Euro Mediterranean tsunami warning system: The case of the February 12, 2007, Ml = 6.1 earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L24309, doi:10.1029/2007GL031364.
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