Emiliano Russo

National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology | INGV

The strategy for data processing in the Engineering Strong-Motion Database (ESM) is to disseminate only manually revised data to ensure the highest quality. However, manual processing is no longer sustainable, due to the ever-increasing rate of digital earthquake records, from global, regional, and national seismic networks, and a new framework for...

Strong ground motion records and free open access to strong-motion data repositories are fundamental inputs to seismology, engineering seismology, soil dynamics, and earthquake engineering science and practice. This article presents the current status and outlook of the Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology (ORFEUS) coordina...

This paper illustrates REXELweb, an updated online version of REXEL, which is a tool for the automatic selection and scaling of spectrum-compatible ground-motions for dynamic analysis of structures. REXELweb allows to define target spectra according to user-definition or design provisions (Eurocode 8 and Italian building code), as well as to unifor...

The availability of high-quality waveforms recorded in epicen-tral areas of moderate-to-strong earthquakes is a key factor for investigating ground-motion characteristics close to the seismic source. In this study, near-source strong-motion waveforms (named NESS1) were collected from worldwide public archives with the aim of building a flat file of...

The last few years have witnessed impressive improvements in strong-motion data curation and dissemination in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Two new modern strong-motion portals were developed within the EC-funded project NERA, mainly based on the European Integrated Waveform Data Archive (EIDA; https://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/eida/), namely: (a) an...

Strong-motion data processing is necessary to evaluate reliable ground-motion for standard or specific applications. We describe a processing web-service, fully integrated with the engineering strong motion database (ESM), a daily-updated strong-motion archive that contains more than 50,000 waveforms of events with magnitude ≥ 4.0, mainly recorded...

The Engineering Strong Motion database (ESM) is one of the infrastructures of the EU project EPOS, for the distribution of accelerometric waveforms. It combines the expertise and datasets acquired within several European projects (FP4 to FP7), the European Integrated Data Archive and national databases. ESM is centralized and distributes strong-mot...

This paper describes the main findings of the project HYPSTHER (HYbrid ground motion prediction equations for PSha purposes: the study case of souTHERn Italy; supported by the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology). The goal of the project is to develop a methodological approach to retrieve hybrid Ground Motion Prediction Equations (GMPEs...

Strong-motion data dissemination in Pan-Europe is undergoing remarkable improvements. Two new modern strong-motion portals were recently developed within project NERA, mainly based on the European Integrated Waveform Data Archive (EIDA), namely: (a) an automatic peak-motion database (RRSM) that delivers earthquake and peak-motion information within...

The last few years have witnessed impressive improvements in strong-motion data curation and dissemination in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Two new modern strong-motion portals were developed within the EC-funded project NERA, mainly based on the European Integrated Waveform Data Archive (EIDA; https://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/eida/), namely: (a) an...

The last release of the strong-motion database ITACA (ITalian ACelerometric Archive v 2.1, http:// itaca. mi. ingv. it) includes, to date, about 25,222 three-component accelerometric waveforms generated by 1365 earthquakes with magnitude between 3.0 and 6.9 and recorded by 1210 stations in the time frame 1972–2015. One of the main goals of ITACA is...

The ground‐motion median and standard deviation of empirical ground‐motion prediction equations (GMPEs) are usually poorly constrained in the near‐source region due to the general lack of strong‐motion records. Here we explore the use of a deterministic–stochastic simulation technique, specifically tailored to reproduce directivity effects, to eval...

In the last decades, the calibration of reliable GMPEs became a critical issue in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA). NGA-East project provides a set of new GMPEs for median and standard deviation of Ground Motions (GMs) and their associated weights in the logic trees for use in PSHA for Central and Eastern North-American Region. These...

On 24 August 2016, at 1.36:32 GMT, a MW 6.0 earthquake with epicenter located below the village of Ac- cumoli, struck a wide area among the boundaries of Lazio, Abruzzo, Umbria and Marche regions (Central Italy): the main event caused the collapse of several buildings and about 300 fatalities, mainly in the towns of Amatrice, Arquata del Tronto and...

During the last years significant efforts have been undertaken to successfully develop strategies for strong-motion waveform data and event metadata dissemination in the European-Mediterranean region. Supported by the EC-funded project NERA and building upon previous FP6 and FP7 experiences, two new databases have been designed that are a) interope...

During the last years significant efforts have been undertaken to successfully develop strategies for strong-motion waveform data and event metadata dissemination in the European-Mediterranean region. Supported by the EC-funded project NERA and building upon previous FP6 and FP7 experiences, two new databases have been designed that are a) interope...

This article describes the Engineering Strong-Motion Database (ESM), developed in the framework of the European project Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation (NERA, see Data and Resources). ESM is specifically designed to provide end users only with quality-checked, uniformly processed strong-mot...

It is important for users of strong-motion data to understand that digitized accelerograms are not the exact reproductions of the ground motion, as, for a variety of reasons, they contain noise at both high and low frequencies. Purpose of processing accelerograms is to estimate the level of noise present and the extent this may affect different par...

The Engineering Strong Motion database (ESMdb), is currently being developed in the framework of the EU project NERA (www.nera-eu.org), within the Task "Networking accelerometric networks and strong motion data users" (NA3). It combines the expertise and datasets gained within several European projects, such as the Internet Site for European Strong...

Empirical models for the prediction of the ground motion as a function of magnitude, distance from the source and site conditions, are worldwide employed in the generation of shaking scenarios and in seismic hazard assessment. Such approaches have taken advantage in the last decades of the increasing quantity of instrumental observations available...

Calabria Region is characterized by a very high seismicity. The most recent earthquakes occurred in 1783 when a seismic sequence damaged South Calabria and N/E Sicily. The MASSIMO project propose to study and monitor the response of the different types of constructions to seismic stress by considering surface geology, topographic characteristics an...

[…] Recently, an INGV working group developed the first version of a web portal with the aim of archiving, processing and distributing accelerometric data recorded by permanent and temporary INGV stations. This web portal (www.mi.ingv.it/ISMD/) is composed of two main modules: the former is known as the INGV Strong Motion Data (ISMD, www.mi.ingv.it...

On May 20th 2012, at 02:03:52 UTC, a ML 5.9 (Mw 6.0) earthquake struck northern Italy (http://cnt.rm.ingv.it/). The epicentre was localized at 44.89˚ N and 11.23˚ E, in an area among the cities of Ferrara, Modena and Mantova. The event occurred at a depth of about 6.3 km, and was characterized by a reverse focal mechanism (http://cnt.rm.ingv.it/tdm...