Florian Haslinger

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• PhD
• Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich

The International Federation of Digital Seismic Networks (FDSN) has championed online open access to seismological waveform data for almost four decades. In 2014, FDSN recommended using DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for seismic networks to enhance data attribution, citation, and impact metrics. This study evaluates the level of adoptio...

Understanding seismic risk at both the national and sub-national level is essential for devising effective strategies and interventions aimed at its mitigation. The Earthquake Risk Model of Switzerland (ERM-CH23), released in early 2023, is the culmination of a multidisciplinary effort aiming to achieve for the first time a comprehensive assessment...

Scientists from different disciplines at ETH Zurich are developing a dynamic, harmonised, and user-centred earthquake risk framework for Switzerland, relying on a continuously evolving earthquake catalogue generated by the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) using the national seismic networks. This framework uses all available information to assess...

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) provides rapid information on earthquakes and their effects, but does not operate seismic stations. It collects and merges parametric earthquake data from seismological agencies and networks around the world and collects earthquake observations from global earthquake eyewitnesses. Since its cre...

Scientists at ETH Zurich from different disciplines are developing a dynamic, harmonised and user-centred earthquake risk framework for Switzerland, relying on a continuously evolving earthquake catalogue generated by the SED using the national seismic networks. This framework uses all available information to assess seismic risk at various stages...

Understanding seismic risk at both the national and sub-national levels is essential for devising effective strategies and interventions aimed at its mitigation. The National Earthquake Risk Model of Switzerland (ERM-CH23), released in early 2023, is the culmination of a multidisciplinary effort aiming to achieve, for the first time, a comprehensiv...

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology, orfeus-eu.org) is a non-profit foundation that coordinates and promotes seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area and beyond, through harmonized collection, archival and distribution of seismic waveform data, metadata, alongside offering services and products managed at national...

We present the status of ShakeMap-EU, an initiative initially proposed in 2018 to: (i) provide an integrated archive of ShakeMaps at the European level built on EPOS Seismology (www.epos-eu.org/tcs/seismology) services & data products and modern community software; (ii) serve as a backup to authoritative ShakeMap implementations; (iii) deliver Shak...

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology, orfeus-eu.org) is a non-profit foundation that coordinates and promotes seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area and beyond, via harmonized collection, archival and distribution of seismic waveform (meta)data, services and products. ORFEUS is one of the founding members of EPOS...

In this article we describe EPOS Seismology, the Thematic Core Service consortium for the seismology domain within the European Plate Observing System infrastructure. EPOS Seismology was developed alongside the build-up of EPOS during the last decade, in close collaboration between the existing pan-European seismological initiatives ORFEUS (Observa...

Novel measurement technologies, additional sensors and increasing data processing capacities offer new opportunities to answer some of the currently most pressing societal and environmental questions. They also contribute to the fact that the available data volume will continue to increase. At the same time, the requirements for those providing suc...

The Swiss Seismological Service (SED; www.seismo.ethz.ch) at ETH Zürich is the agency in charge of monitoring the seismicity in and around Switzerland and of informing the public, the authorities and the media about earthquake locations, magnitudes and possible impacts. Among the SED earthquake products is ShakeMap (usgs.github.io/shakemap), in use...

Machine-learning (ML) methods have seen widespread adoption in seismology in recent years. The ability of these techniques to efficiently infer the statistical properties of large datasets often provides significant improvements over traditional techniques when the number of data are large (millions of examples). With the entire spectrum of seismol...

Seismic event detection and phase picking are the base of many seismological workflows. In recent years, several publications demonstrated that deep learning approaches significantly outperform classical approaches, achieving human‐like performance under certain circumstances. However, as studies differ in the datasets and evaluation tasks, it is u...

Machine Learning (ML) methods have seen widespread adoption in seismology in recent years. The ability of these techniques to efficiently infer the statistical properties of large datasets often provides significant improvements over traditional techniques. With the entire spectrum of seismological tasks, e.g., seismic picking, source property esti...

Seismic event detection and phase picking are the base of many seismological workflows. In recent years, several publications demonstrated that deep learning approaches significantly outperform classical approaches and even achieve human-like performance under certain circumstances. However, as most studies differ in the datasets and exact evaluati...

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology; http://orfeus-eu.org/) is a non-profit foundation that promotes observational seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area through the collection, archival and distribution of seismic waveform data, metadata, and closely related services and products. The data and services are coll...

This report summarizes the seismicity in Switzerland and surrounding regions in the years 2017 and 2018. In 2017 and 2018, the Swiss Seismological Service detected and located 1227 and 955 earthquakes in the region under consideration, respectively. The strongest event in the analysed period was the ML 4.6 Urnerboden earthquake, which occurred in t...

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology) is a non-profit foundation that promotes seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area through the collection, archival and distribution of seismic waveform data, metadata and closely related products. The data and services are collected or developed at national level by more than 6...

The Swiss Seismological Service (SED; http://www.seismo.ethz.ch) at ETH Zürich is the federal agency in charge of monitoring earthquakes in Switzerland and neighboring areas, and for the assessment of seismic hazard and risk for the region. The SED seismic network largely relies on software and databases integrated in the SeisComP3 monitoring suite...

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology; https://www.orfeus-eu.org/) is a collaborative non-profit foundation that promotes seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area through the collection, archival and distribution of digital seismic waveform data, metadata and derived products. ORFEUS is one of the three pillars of t...

This deliverable refers to the “Ethical Guidelines” (EGs) for Research Infrastructures (RIs) developed and implemented by WP13. The EGs present a general framework of ethical values, to be used by each research infrastructure of the ENVRI community. They are a basis to design or to shape individual ethical guidelines taking into account RIs’ peculi...

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology; https://www.orfeus-eu.org/) is a collaborative non-profit foundation that promotes seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area through the collection, archival and distribution of digital seismic waveform data, metadata and derived products. ORFEUS is one of the three pillars of t...

This deliverable refers to the “Ethical Label” (EL) template implemented by WP13. The EL template is provided in Appendix A. The EL will identify and highlight ethical and social peculiarities of “activities, products, and data” (deliverables) undertaken within and/or resulting from the ENVRIplus project. This implies that authors of ENVRIplus deli...

This report summarizes the seismicity in Switzerland and surrounding regions in the years 2015 and 2016. In 2015, the Swiss Seismological Service detected and located 735 earthquakes in the region under consideration. With a total of 20 earthquakes of magnitude ML ≥ 2.5, the seismic activity of potentially felt events in 2015 was close to the avera...

ENVRI PLUS is a Horizon 2020 project bringing together Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures (RIs), projects and networks with technical specialist partners to create a more coherent, interdisciplinary and interoperable cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures across Europe (http://www.envriplus.eu/). One theme of the pro...

Easy, efficient and comprehensive access to data, data products, scientific services and scientific software is a key ingredient in enabling research at the frontiers of science. Organizing this access across the European Research Infrastructures in the field of seismology, so that it best serves user needs, takes advantage of state-of-the-art ICT...

Data from continuously recording permanent seismic networks can contain information about rockslide occurrence and timing complementary to eyewitness observations, and thus aid in construction of robust event catalogs. However, detecting infrequent rockslide signals within large volumes of continuous seismic waveform data remains challenging and of...

During 2014, 817 earthquakes and 180 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. An additional 160 earthquakes with M-L a parts per thousand currency sign 1.0 were located using supplementary analysis techniques. The number of located earthquakes in 2014 was the largest since the installation of a seismic network in S...

Seismic signal analysis can provide valuable information to understand rockslide dynamics in the absence of direct observation. Established methods of moment tensor inversion may assist with rapid rockslide parameter estimation, which can be crucial for mitigating secondary hazards. In contrast to previous studies that focused only on large rock av...

During 2014, 817 earthquakes and 180 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. An additional 160 earthquakes with ML ≤ 1.0 were located using supplementary analysis techniques. The number of located earthquakes in 2014 was the largest since the installation of a seismic network in Switzerland in 1975. This unusually...

This chapter provides an overview of the last two decades’ European experiences in educational seismology and describes the different contexts in which they have been developed. The basic idea of these educational projects is that seismology may represent an efficient communication vehicle for teaching a wide range of basic earth science topics thr...

The Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich (SED) operates both the national strong motion and broadband permanent seismic networks in Switzerland, as well as supporting local real-time densifications related to projects (such as geothermal explorations and major tunneling) and a mobile pool for national and international deployments related to r...

This report of the Swiss Seismological Service summarizes the seismic activity in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2012. During this period, 497 earthquakes and 88 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. With a total of only 13 events with ML ≥ 2.5, the seismic activity in the year 2012 was far below the...

Seismological data, products and models are currently produced in Europe within individual countries or research organizations, and with the contribution of coordinating organizations like ORFEUS and EMSC. In spite of these partly scattered resources, significant scientific results are obtained, excellent monitoring and information systems are oper...

Large rock slope failures often occur without warning and are among the most destructive and dangerous natural events in alpine regions. With growing settlement and development in alpine areas, efficient identification and rapid response to rockslide hazards becomes increasingly critical. Our ultimate goal is near-real-time automated identification...

In the first two years of the EPOS Preparatory Phase (2010-2012), very significant progress has been made in formulating the strategy for integrating data and services for the solid earth science community in Europe, and a solid framework for the EPOS architecture is now emerging. These achievements are the result of extensive involvement of the pr...

This report of the Swiss Seismological Service summarizes the seismic activity in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2011. During this period, 522 earthquakes and 92 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. With a total of only 10 events with M (L) a parts per thousand yen 2.5, the seismic activity in the y...

The magnitude 4.2 earthquake that occurred on February 11 at 11.45 pm local time (10.45 pm UTC) between lakes of Zug and Ägeri, was the strongest earthquake to occur in Switzerland since the September 2005 magnitude 4.9 earthquake in Vallorcine (near Martigny). Last events of magnitudes 4 and above occurred in January 2009 (near Wildhaus, Toggenbur...

Seismic data analysis is a powerful tool for remote characterization of rock slope failures. Here we develop quantitative estimates of fundamental rockslide properties (e.g., volume) based solely on data from an existing regional seismic network. We assembled a data set of twenty known rockslides in the central Alps (with volumes between 1,000 and...

This report of the Swiss Seismological Service summarizes the seismic activity in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2010. During this period, 407 earthquakes and 85 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. With a total of only 19 events with M-L a parts per thousand yen 2.5, the seismic activity in the yea...

The next generation Swiss Strong Motion Network has recently been funded by the Swiss Government: in the next 8 years the Swiss Seismological Service expects to install 100 new 24-bit broadband freefield stations in predominantly urban locations across the country with realtime, continuous data transmission at high sampling rates. This infrastructu...

This report of the Swiss Seismological Service summarizes the seismic activity in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2011. During this period, 522 earthquakes and 92 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. With a total of only 10 events with M L ≥ 2.5, the seismic activity in the year 2011 was far below th...

Seismic recordings from regional networks may be used to identify and locate rockslide events, and can provide unique information on event characteristics that could otherwise only be established by eye witnesses. Here we analyze the seismic signals from 20 large rockslide events that occurred in the Swiss and French Alps during the last twenty yea...

This report of the Swiss Seismological Service summarizes the seismic activity in Switzerland and surrounding regions during 2008. During this period, 451 earthquakes and 75 quarry blasts were detected and located in the region under consideration. The three strongest events occurred in the Valais, near Lac des Toules (ML 3.6), and in Graubünden, n...

Earthquakes may be traumatic events and as many other environmental emergencies, like storm or floods, may cause more damages than expected when who experiences the phenomena does not know how to behave in the fall. Provided that it is always not feasible to rely on prediction when dealing with earthquakes or extreme meteorological events, prepared...

The Swiss Seismological Service (SED) operates one of the densest seismic broadband networks in Europe with 27 STS2 stations transmitting 24 bit 120sps data in real time. In addition the SED operates a network of 77 strong-motion recorders (65 free-field, 12 on hard rock co-located with broadband sensors). At 16 of the free-field sites and the 12 h...

The global network of the International Monitoring System (IMS) of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), once completed, will consist of 321 monitoring facilities of four different technologies: hydroacoustic, seismic, infrasonic, and radionuclide. As of today, about 65% of the installations are completed and contribute da...

It has been proposed that a deep magma body beneath the east rift zone (ERZ) of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, must be present in order to explain the observed deformation of the south flank. From November 1999 to June 2000, 29 IRIS-PASSCAL three-component seismographs were operated across Kilauea's ERZ and south flank. Using local earthquakes recorded b...

Seismological monitoring is one of the four technologies used by the International Monitoring System to verify compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. When fully operational, two seismic networks, one primary (50 stations) and one auxiliary (120 stations), will enable global detection and event characterisation of sources with eq...

To better assess quality of three-dimensional (3-D) tomographic images and to better define possible improvements to tomographic inversion procedures, one must consider not only data quality and numerical precision of forward and inverse solvers but also appropriateness of model parametrization and display of results. The quality of the forward sol...

We have investigated the potential contributions of improved arrival times (using waveform cross-correlation) and the use of three-dimensional (3-D) velocity models for seismic event location capability. Our analyses are applied to a dataset of nuclear explosions at Balapan, Kazakhstan, for which ground-truth locations and some absolute origin time...

The evaluation of accuracy and precision of the employed forward solution method (ray tracer) and of its effects on the inverse solution is one of the key issues in quality and reliability assessment of tomographic images. In general, an analytical solution to the forward problem does not exist for arbitrary three-dimensional (3-D) velocity models....

We present first results from the analysis of P-wave arrival time data recorded from November 11 to December 31, 1999, by a temporary 29-station network installed across Kilauea Volcano's East Rift Zone (ERZ) and South Flank (SF) on Hawaii, augmented by data from the permanent network of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Starting with the inversion...

Focal parameters of local earthquakes in the region of the Ionian Islands of western Greece are constrained with a temporary dense array of three-component seismographs operated jointly offshore and onshore. Seismic deformation is documented to be confined to the east of the N20°-E-striking seep continental slope west of Cephalonia island, the righ...

We are investigating seismic event location capability in Kazakstan using first-P arrivals from nuclear explosions with exact ground truth information recorded on a sparse network of digital seismic stations. Our first step involves the application of a waveform cross-correlation method to extract higher precision first-P arrival times. Comparison...

During summer of 1995 local seismicity was recorded in the area around the Gulf of Arta in northwestern Greece by a dense temporary seismic network. Of the 441 local events observed at 37 stations, 232 well locatable events with a total of 2776 P-phase readings were selected applying the criteria of a minimum of 6 P-observations and an azimuthal ga...

Seismic tomography is an excellent tool for imaging lithospheric faults and reliability of tomographic results is of fundamental importance. To assess the quality of 3D tomographic images, one must consider not only data quality but also model parametrization, display ofresults, and numerical precision of forward and inverse solvers. Since we expec...

The Ionian region (western Mainland Greece and the Ionian islands) plays an important role in the geodynanmics of the eastern Mediterranean. At the triple junction of the African, Eurasian and Anatolian/Aegean plates it is located in the transition zone between the Hellenic oceanic subduction and the continental collision zone of the Hellenides/Din...

Thesis (doctoral)--Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 1998.