Berlin 8th-9th Oct 2008 NEAREST 2nd Annual meeting WP9 – Circulation of project informations to end-users Zitellini N. and Carrara G

Berlin 8th-9th Oct 2008

NEAREST 2nd Annual meeting

WP9 – Circulation of project informations to end-users

Zitellini N. and Carrara G.


• Task 9.1 Project communicationCompleted in the previous period

• Task 9.2 Project web siteCompleted in the previous period and updated periodically. A new section dedicated to the dissemination was created. This will be developed and improved during the next months with the contributions of all partners.



• Task 9.3 Contact databaseThe state of the database is stationary.

• Task 9.4 Diffusion plan The diffusion plan, as foreseen, includes two different actions:- The first one is the diffusion of the knowledge inside the scientific community. - In the second one the knowledge dissemination is addressed to a non specialistic public.


Diffusion plan

The contribution to the diffusion comes mainly from:- the NEAREST partners participation to the national and

international scientific congresses; - the production of various scientific papers published on

international journals and thematic volumes (i.e. Marine Geology , Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, Tectonophysics, etc) or on not SCI journals.

The dissemination toward a non specialistic public has been done, in each NEAREST partner country, by radio interviews and TV appearances, internet newsletters and newspaper articles.


Scientific Communication

Published scientific papers • Abrantes F., U. Alt-Epping, S. Lebreiro, A. Voelker, R. Schneider (2008)

Sedimentological record of tsunamis on shallow-shelf areas: The case of the 1969 AD and 1755 AD tsunamis on the Portuguese Shelf off Lisbon. Marine Geology 249,283–293.

• Buontempo, L., G.H.R. Bokelmann, G. Barruol and J. Morales (2008) "Seismic anisotropy beneath southern Iberia from SKS Splitting" Earth Planetary Science Letters vol 273: 237-250

• Gutscher, M.-A., and Westbrook, G., (accepted). Great earthquakes in slow-subduction low-taper margins. in Sp. Vol. Subduction Zones Geodynamics, (eds. S. Lallemand, F. Funiciello) Springer, Berlin, (submitted Sept. 2007).Gutscher, M.-A., Dominguez, S., Westbrook, G., Gente, P., Babonneau, N., Mulder, T., Gonthier, E., Bartolome, R., Luis, J, Rosas, F., Terrinha, P., and the Delila and DelSis Scientific Teams. (in press). Tectonic shortening and gravitational spreading in the Gulf of Cadiz accretionary wedge: observations from multi-beam bathymetry and seismic profiling. Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, Sp. Vol. on Submarine instabilities (in press).


Submitted scientific papersGutscher, M.-A., Dominguez, S., Westbrook, G., and Le Roy, P., (submitted April 2008). Deep structure, recent deformation and analog modeling of the Gulf of Cadiz accretionary wedge: implications for the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Tectonophysics Sp. Vol., Proc. Of the MAPG Meeting Marrakech Morocco (guest editor D. Frizon de Lamotte).M. A. Oliveira, C. Andrade, M. C. Freitas and P. Costa. Using the historical record and geomorphological setting to identify tsunami deposits in the southwestern coast of Algarve (Portugal). Submitted to the 2nd International Tsunami Field Symposium, Puglia - Ionian Islands, 2008.P. Costa, C. Andrade, M. C. Freitas, M. A. Oliveira, R. Taborda and C. M. da Silva. High energy boulder deposition in Barranco and Furnas lowlands, western Algarve (south Portugal). Submitted to the 2nd International Tsunami Field Symposium, Puglia - Ionian Islands, 2008.


Conference abstracts Baptista,M.A; Miranda, J M; Matias, L M ; Zitellini, N Tsunami risk in SW Iberia from near shore

sources; implications on early warning. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 6799, 2007; SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2007-A-06799;© European Geosciences Union 2007.

Chierici. F, Beranzoli L., Embriaco D., Favali P., Marinaro G., Monna S., Pignagnoli L, Zitellini N., Bruni F., Furlan F, Gasparoni F. - An innovative tsunami detector operating in tsunami generation environment. AGU FALL MEETING; 10-14 December 2007; San Francisco, CA, USA.

F.Chierici, L.Beranzoli, D. Embriaco, P. Favali, G. Marinaro, S. Monna, L. Pignagnoli, N. Zitellini, F. Bruni, F. Furlan, F. Gasparoni. An innovative tsunami detector operating on a multiparameter seafloor observatory. EGU General assembly Vienna, 13-18 Aprile 2008.

Chierici F., Zitellini N., Favali P., Beranzoli L., Pignagnoli L., Embriaco D., Carrara G., Marinaro G., Lo Bue N., monna S., Gasparoni F., Furlan F., Bruni F. - Tsunami Warning prototype in the frame of the EC NEAREST project. SGI Annual assembly , Sassari, 17 September 2008.

Gutscher, M.-A., Dominguez, S., Le Roy, P., Mulder, T., Luis, J, Rosas, F., and Terrinha, P., 2008. Active tectonics of the Gulf of Cadiz accretionary wedge: multibeam bathymetry and analog modeling. Proc. EGU Meeting, Vienna, Apr. 2008, Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 10, CD-ROM.

Gutscher, M.-A., Leroy P., Graindorge, D., Babonneau, N., Maad, N., and Ait-Brahim, L., 2007. Active deformation and paleoseismology of northern Morocco: onshore and offshore faults and the source of the great 1755 earthquake and tsunami. MAPG Meeting, Marrakech, Oct. 2007.


Gutscher, M.-A., Dominguez, S., Westbrook, G., Gente, P., Babonneau, N., Mulder, T., Gonthier, E., Bartolome, R., Luis, J, Rosas, F., 2007. The Gulf of Cadiz accretionary prism: the active offshore link between the Rif and Betic mountain belts. MAPG Meeting, Marrakech, Oct. 2007.

Gutscher, M.-A., LeRoy, P., Graindorge, D., Babonneau, N. Maad, N., Dominguez, S., Westbrook, Fernandes, R., Miranda, J.M., 2007. Active subduction as the driving force behind recent deformation and long-term seismicity in the Gibraltar - Gulf of Cadiz region. MAPG Meeting, Marrakech, Oct. 2007.

Omira R., M. A. Baptista, J. M.Miranda, C. Catita. Tsunami Vulnerabilità Assessment of Casablanca – Morocco, pilot study. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco 10 – 14 December.

Zitellini N., P. Favali, H. Gerber, M.A. Baptista, F. Carrilho, J. Dañobetia, W. Jokat, M.-A. Gutscher, J. Morales, A. El Mourahouad, H. Caetano & NEAREST team. EC-NEAREST project: First Tsunami Underwater Observatory in the Gulf of Cadiz. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco 10 – 14 December.

Posters•W. Gessler and NEAREST Working Group. 2008. Seismological studies within the frame of the EU project NEAREST . EGU Meeting, Vienna, Apr. 2008,


non specialistic public

Invited talk University College Dublin, Ireland, 10 April 2008. Active subduction beneath

Gibraltar and the source of the Great Lisbon earthquake and tsunami of 1755.

Podemos prever um tsunami? Conference text by Maria Ana Baptista at NA FRONTEIRA DA CIÊNCIA 2007/2008 30JAN2008-04-07

Radio Interview and TV appearances (filmed and planned - not yet broadcast)

Radio Maroc, Casablanca, 4 Octobre 2007 (interview by telephone) Reseau d’alerte au tsunami au Maroc et le projet Européen Nearest.

ZDF, filmed in the studio in Köln Germany (Jun 2007), broadcast date not yet decided Lissabon 1755, Docu-drama (produced by A. Solomon, H. Stein, script by H. Nelsen-Minkenberg).

The History Channel, filmed in the studio in Köln Germany (Jun 2007), broadcast date not yet decided.

Lisbon 1755, Docu-drama (produced by A. Solomon, H. Stein, script by H. Nelsen-Minkenberg)


• http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/11/20/sociedade/sistema_alerta_tsunamis_atlantico_te.html

• http://first.aster.it/news/Show_news.php?ID=16933• Portugal news ondine - Portugal to participate in early Tsunami warning

system 19/1/2008• French National Earth Science website (Institut National Sciences de

l'Univers - INSU) International Year of planet earth, Image of the week, 24 March 2008 Annee Internationale de la Planete Terre (AITP), Image de la semaine du 24 Mars 2008 Carte bathymetrique du Golfe de Cadix http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/a2515,images-semaines-precedentes.html

• http://www.observatoriodoalgarve.com/cna/noticias_ver.asp?noticia=17511• http://jn.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Nacional/Interior.aspx?content_id=980502• http://diario.iol.pt/tecnologia/algarve-tsunami-estacao-de-alerta-sagres-

equipamento-tecnologia/981944-4069.html• http://www.barlavento.online.pt/index.php/noticia?id=26408• http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/lusa/2008/08/16/ult611u79079.jhtm

Internet newsletters


WP9 ISMAR Activity

Our activity was addressed to very young people. For this purpose:

• - ISMAR is participating to the educational local project “Il linguaggio della ricerca” promoted by CNR and addressed to the secondary and high schools of Bologna. This project include the visit to the ISMAR Institute, brief lessons or talks on tsunami and the Nearest project, practical applications and distribution of dissemination materials tailored on the age of the audience.


Following the suggestion by NOOA and UNESCO organizations, a kit of tsunami dissemination materials were prepared to be used.

This material is constituted by :

- some posters on tsunami meaning and behaviour written in clear, simple and impressive language.

- A coloring album for primary school

- A booklet for secondary school students


All this material is available in english and can be translated in each language of the NEAREST team. The booklet can be customized to the case study in which the single country is involved.


All this material will be available on the web site dissemination section in an appropriate educational sub section.

In this activity the NEAREST web site dissemination section could represent the reference site of distribution of all the informations, videos and photographs about the project and the tsunami warning topic.

Obviously each translated document will be put on the web site to be available to the public.

This action could be represent an homogeneous way to disseminate the project activity all around Europe.

All suggestions and contributions are welcome!


In addition some Italian scientific museums have been contacted in order to perform meetings and where is possible “permanent” exhibitions ( for a period that can span from one week to some months) about tsunamis argument and the related NEAREST project.


Thanks for your attention

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Berlin 8th-9th Oct 2008 NEAREST 2nd Annual meeting WP9 – Circulation of project informations to end-users Zitellini N. and Carrara G