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Caravel: A New Seismic Monitoring System

The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) is the operational center in charge for monitoring Italian earthquakes. The surveillance system is designed to provide information to the Department of Civil Protection (Dipartimento di Protezione Civile [DPC]) and to the public. Such systems and related services are funded by the Italian Government (Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri) based on a formal agreement between INGV and DPC.

Technological improvements in the last years were taken into account for devel- oping new protocols and software to upgrade all the procedures actually in use in the monitoring centers. A new software architecture, based on a new database schema capable of representing all information coded in the QuakeML format, and a set of OpenAPI specifications have been redesigned and developed in order to standardize the interaction of software that produce and review scientific products.

Real-time earthquake evaluation consists of phase picks, preliminary and automatic hypocenters, local magnitudes and ground-motion parameters. The real-time analysis system presently in use at INGV was the starting point for Caravel, the new multitier compound system that relies on four main components: an automatic earthquake detection and location systems based on multiple instances of Earthworm; a new seismological relational database for parametric data called QuakeDB; a full set of new web services application programming interface specifications to share information and provide data at the application level called Dante and, finally, a multiplatform interactive revision tool developed to analyze, use and review the seismic parameters in real-time called PickFX. Such a system has been engineered to access the EIDA data and interact with the International FDSN (Federation of Digital Seismic Networks) standard web services. INGV personnel are now testing the Caravel system for being ready in the next future to use it in the Italian Seismic Surveillance system.

Session: Network Seismology: Recent Developments, Challenges and Lessons Learned [Poster]

Type: Poster

Room: Evergreen Ballroom

Date: 4/22/2022

Presentation Time: 08:00 AM Pacific

Presenting Author: Laura Scognamiglio

Student Presenter: No

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