International Training Course on Seismology, Seismic Data Analysis, Hazard Assessment and Risk Mitigation

Scientific Programme

1. Opening Day

• Welcome

  Sunday, Oct. 5

  09:00 - 10:00
  Dr. Simone Cesca - Welcome
  NN, IOGA - Welcome and presentation of IOGA
  Prof. Dr. Torsten Dahm - Presentation of the GFZ
  Dr. Simone Cesca - Presentation of the ITC 2025

  10:00 - 10:30
  Break for a welcome drink - Group Photo

  10:30 - 11:15
  Dr. S. Cesca - Magmatic induced seismicity in Southeastern Africa

  11:15 - 12:00
  Dr. H. Razafindrakoto - Title tbc

  12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

  13:30 - 15:00
  T. DAHM - Aims and fundamentals of seismology

  15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break

  15:30 - 17:00
  T. DAHM - Seismic sources and source parameters

  Evening:
  18:00 - 20:00
  Dinner and Informal get-together of participants and lecturers

2. Seismology, Instrumentation, Seismogram Analysis, Earthquake Source Parameter, and Wave Propagation

• Introduction to seismology, SeisComP

  Monday, Oct. 6
  08:30 - 10:00
  T. DAHM - Theory of wave propagation: Basics of numerical methods

  10:30 - 12:00
  T. DAHM - Seismic waves in the real Earth, required seismic records and derived Earth models

  13:30 - 15:00
  P. EVANS, A. STROLLO - Introduction to SeisComP

  15:30 - 17:00
  A. STROLLO, P. EVANS - Event location and Magnitudes in SeisComP

• SeisComp – data acquisition, handling and curation

  Tuesday, Oct. 7
  08:30 - 10:00
  P. EVANS, A. STROLLO - SeisComP setup and quick start

  10:30 - 12:00
  P. EVANS, A. STROLLO - SeisComP quick start and playback demonstration

  13:30 - 15:00
  A. STROLLO, P. EVANS - Hands-on exercise: Event location, focal mechanisms and magnitudes with SeisComP

  15:30 - 17:00
  A. STROLLO, P. EVANS - FDSN/EIDA/ORFEUS services: contributing and using them

• Pyrocko - Source inversion

  Wednesday, Oct. 8
  08:30 - 10:00
  S. HEIMANN - Introduction to Pyrocko

  10:30 - 12:00
  S. HEIMANN - Earthquake data access, agencies and formats

  13:30 - 15:00
  S. CESCA - Data visualization and pre-processing

  15:30 - 17:00
  S.CESCA - Green’s functions and synthetic seismograms

  19:00 – 20:30
  Scientific Presentations of the Participants (1-10)

• Moment tensor inversion

  Thursday, Oct. 9
  08:30 - 10:00
  S. CESCA - Source inversion in seismology

  10:30 - 12:00
  S. HEIMANN, S. CESCA - Source inversion with Grond

  13:30 - 15:00
  S. HEIMANN, S. CESCA - Source inversion exercise

  15:30 - 17:00
  S. HEIMANN, S. CESCA - Source inversion exercise

• Numerical Modeling, finite fault

  Friday, Oct. 10
  08:30 - 10:00
  M. MAI - Title tbd

  10:30 - 12:00
  M. MAI - Title tbd

  13:30 - 15:00
  M. MAI - Title- tbd

  15:30 - 17:00
  M. MAI - Title tbd

Excursion

• Excursion

  Saturday, Oct.11 / Sunday, Oct. 12

3. Engineering Seismology, seismic hazard and risk assessment, Seismic Hazard Assessment and Seismic Risk

• Strong Motion

  Monday, Oct. 13
  08:30 - 10:00
  F. COTTON - Introduction into Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment

  10:30 - 12:00
  F. COTTON - Factors controlling strong ground-shaking characteristics

  13:30 - 15:00
  F. COTTON - Introduction to strong motion seismology

  15:30 - 17:00
  F. COTTON - Strong motion data and processing

• Seismic Hazard

  Tuesday, Oct. 14
  08:30 - 10:00
  F. COTTON - Principles of seismic hazard analysis I

  10:30 - 12:00
  F. COTTON - Principles of seismic hazard analysis II

  13:30 - 15:00
  F. COTTON - Seismic hazard assessment in practice: lessons learned from recent earthquakes

  15:30 - 17:00
  F. COTTON - Challenges of Seismic hazard assessment: uncertainty evaluation, city effects and effects of climate change on seismic risk

  Wednesday, Oct. 15
  08:30 - 10:00
  F. COTTON - Ground motion models in PSHA

  10:30 - 12:00
  F. COTTON - Modelling site effects for regional hazard and risk assessment

  13:30 - 15:00
  Scientific Presentations of the Participants (11-15)

  15:30 – 17:00
  Scientific Presentations of the Participants (16-20)

• Site effects

  Thursday, Oct. 16
  08:30 - 10:00
  M. PILZ - Seismic site effects: Introduction

  10:30 - 12:00
  M. PILZ - Assessment of site effects: Single station methods

  13:30 - 15:00
  M. PILZ - Assessment of site effects: Array-based methods

  15:30 – 17:00
  M. PILZ - Inversion of H/V and dispersion curves

4. Geodesy

• InSAR

  Friday, Oct. 17
  08:30 - 10:00
  S. METZGER - Introduction

  10:00 - 12:00
  S. METZGER - Introduction

  13:30 - 15:00
  S. METZGER - Practical exercise

  15:30 - 17:00
  S. METZGER - Practical exercise

  Saturday, Oct. 18
  08:30 - 10:00
  S. METZGER - Introduction to SAR Interferometry (InSAR) and multi-temporal InSAR analysis

  10:30 - 12:00
  S. METZGER - Introduction to SAR processing using SNAP