Webinar Schedule

Highlighting the Most Important Factors in Earthquake Resilience and Response Solutions

Featuring: Brandon Parrott, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Over the past 55 years, Kinemetrics has led the development of seismic instrumentation and solutions that have enabled our customers and partners to advance earthquake science and engineering to the point we find it today.

This path of Advancement Through Innovation continues even today.

In this informative webinar and Q&A session, Brandon Parrott from Kinemetrics will review some of the most important recent events and findings related to earthquake response solutions, through the lens of the case studies and solutions presented in previous Kinemetrics Information Series Webinars.

More than just a simple year-end review, this presentation will concentrate on highlighting the critical factors driving state-of-the art earthquake solutions. This webinar is a must for any scientist, engineer, or emergency response professional involved in supporting earthquake resilience and response.

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Combining Seismology, Structural Engineering and Behavioral Science
to Enable Better Earthquake Emergency Response

Featuring Dr. Derek Skolnik & Brandon Parrott, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Earthquakes present unique challenges to impacted regions, organizations, and individuals, and catastrophic consequences can result from improper decision-making during these emergency events.

As such, earthquake response systems must be optimized through a combination of science and technology that provides a foundation to deliver the information and tools required by a multitude of stakeholders before, during, and after the event.

If the system serves the engineering community but does not meet the needs of the public or emergency responders, its value can be called into question. Earthquake response systems serve multiple stakeholders and must address the needs of each in a manner consistent with their expectations – detailed technical information for scientists and engineers, actionable information for emergency responders, and safety instructions for the general public.

Maximizing the effect of these systems also requires that they be integrated into the everyday systems and processes of those who rely on them.

In this session, Dr. Derek Skolnik and Brandon Parrott from Kinemetrics will discuss how leading organizations use the OasisPlus Earthquake Response Platform to ensure quick, safe, and effective emergency response. The presentation will center on real-world examples, and describe how best to meet the needs of the various groups – the public, technical professionals, emergency responders, and decision makers – affected by a given earthquake.

This informative webinar + Q&A will provide a new insight into how to maximize situational awareness and ensure effective earthquake response.

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Introducing QME – A New Standard for Seismographic and Environmental Monitoring
Data Acquisition

Featuring Dr. Mathias Franke, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Seismographic networks frequently incorporate the acquisition of related data sources. For example, the Global Seismographic Network combines data acquired from infrasound and meteorological sensors. The physical connection of multiple data sources to data acquisition equipment requires significant systems engineering to mitigate conditions that compromise the quality of acquired data

However, geophysical and environmental sensors are not physically co-located, resulting in wiring, which must be protected against physical damage.

The Q8 data acquisition system integrates additional data sources using low-power wireless transmission from multiple nodes via a secure, error-correcting protocol. This ensures precise timing in each node and allows nodes to “relay” traffic in a mesh topology.

Eliminating physical connections enables the placement of sensors for additional data (e.g., weather stations, magnetometers, etc.) in their optimal physical location away from local interference. Supporting up to 16 channels of information from up to 8 QME (Quanterra Mesh Extension) nodes at up to 1 sample/sec, the Q8 changes the standard for implementation of remote and distributed systems.

In this live webinar and Q&A session, Dr. Mathias Franke will describe the features of the QME, and provide understanding of how this technological advancement changes the standards for implementation of seismological and environmental sensors.

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CROSSNET Project: A New Vision for the Croatian Seismological Survey

Featuring Tomislav Fiket, Croatian Seismological Survey

The Croatian Seismological Survey faced numerous difficulties before the Zagreb and Petrinja earthquakes in 2020. The organization was understaffed, and had a meager number of stations – 17 in total – belonging to the national network. Among these, there were 8 additional strong motion stations. Additionally, the IT equipment was outdated, and the funding allocated to the survey was negligible. Under such circumstances, maintaining the national network was challenging, and upgrades to the network were impossible.

The situation began to change after the Zagreb earthquake in March 2020, but the real turning point came with the Petrinja earthquake in December of the same year. In the days following the earthquake, a donation of 20 sets of mobile stations, consisting of both broadband and strong motion instruments in each set, was received. Furthermore, the annual budget was increased, and the long-awaited opportunity to upgrade the national network of seismic stations was granted by including this project in the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience for 2021.

The CROSSNET project, an acronym for the Croatian Seismological Survey Network, is funded by EU funds and supported by the government, which covers VAT costs and other expenses. The total budget, including VAT, amounts to 13 million euros.

In this informative webinar and Q&A, special guest speaker Tomislav Fiket will explain the desired outcomes of the CROSSNET project and outline the envisioned evolution of the Croatian Seismological Survey.

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Quantix Q8 Storage and Telemetry

Featuring Dennis Pumphrey, Kinemetrics Inc.

The Qantix Q8 represents the pinnacle of Quanterra’s 30+ years’ undisputed leadership in designing the most advanced ultra-high performance data acquisition systems in our marketplace. Designed to support updating of existing Q330-based global and regional networks, the Q8 offers the same reliability, extraordinary temperature stability and data redundancy together with new advanced features.

In this session, returning speaker Dennis Pumphrey will educate us on the many storage and telemetry options provided by the Q8. He will discuss four different storage devices and Advanced Archival methods. In addition, several telemetry topics, including Hybrid mode, ORB server, SEEDLink, and QSCD will be detailed.

Dennis may even give us some insight on an important upcoming enhancement that you won’t want to miss!

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The Importance of Force Balance Accelerometers to Constrain Future and Near Real Time Ground Motion Scenarios

Featuring Dr. Jorge Crempien

Never before have so many strong motion instruments been deployed in the vicinity of active tectonic margins, which has enabled us to understand underlying physical processes of rupture that take place in the event of an earthquake. With the advancement of numerical and empirical techniques to simulate strong ground motion scenarios, with physics-based rupture models, the new objective is to constrain these models with ground motions recorded by force balance accelerometers, by dissecting the underlying physical processes related to the seismic source, path wave propagations, and site effects.

In this session, Dr. Jorge Crempien will show several approaches to invert these data to constrain kinematic rupture models on faults, for both scientific and near real time purposes, such as spatial ground motion intensities and cascading tsunami inundation estimations on coastal areas. He will also demonstrate numerical and empirical approaches aimed at constraining ground motion scenarios for regions with little recorded data.

This informative webinar + Q&A places particular focus on numerical methods to simulate ground motion stemming from crustal earthquakes, and the use of small earthquakes to simulate mega-earthquake ground motions on subduction zones, using the Empirical Green’s Function approach.

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Introducing The OmniSensor

Featuring Dr. Tom VanZandt

In this session, special guest speaker Dr. Tom VanZandt will introduce the OmniSensor, a new instrument that integrates the traditional broadband seismometer and strong motion accelerometer into a single posthole-compatible package.

The presentation will discuss the design and construction of the OmniSensor and its cabling. Dr. VanZandt will describe its basic operating parameters and performance, and discuss standard deployment tooling and methods.

This informative webinar + Q&A will provide critical information to engineers, professionals and researchers on the Omnisensor.

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NORSAR Bear Island Array Deployment

Featuring Jon Magnus Christensen

In this session, special guest speaker Jon Magnus Christensen will provide a detailed overview of the NORSAR Bear Island Array Deployment.

Through the EPOS Norway project NORSAR has installed a 6 element seismic array on Bear Island, a small island between mainland Norway and Spitsbergen. The goal of the installation was to improve seismic monitoring of the Svalbard region, mid-Atlantic ridges and Barents Sea. Due to strict environmental restrictions the original plans had to be revised several times and a complementary array in Hornsund on Spitsbergen with a similar configuration is planned.

This informative webinar + Q&A will focus on the deployment at Bear Island, preliminary results as well as the plans for the Hornsund installation.

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Expert Panel: The Kinemetrics Information Series On-Demand Library

Featuring Dr. Derek Skolnik, Kinemetrics, Inc.

In this special session, our panel of experts will review the knowledge base of 28 on-demand webinars created in 2020 Kinemetrics Information Series.

Dr. Derek Skolnik will host Dr. Mathias Franke, Dr. Lani Oncescu, and Mauricio Ciudad-Real in a discussion of topics across four categories: Products, Seismology, Earthquake Engineering, and Business Continuity.

This informative webinar + Q&A will provide a synopsis for each category, discuss what we learned, and provide information on how best to utilize these resources in your own projects.

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