Webinar Schedule

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 Additionally, the IT equipment was outdated, and the funding allocated to the survey was negligible.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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Looking Inside the Earth and Planets

Featuring Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University

Eighty-six years have passed since discovering the Earth’s inner core and more than fifty years since our first journey to the Moon.

Meanwhile, global seismology has come a long way in providing insights into Earth’s internal structure and dynamics. However, progress in imaging the Earth’s inner core – a planet within the planet – has been impeded by the lack of geometric coverage of body waves from large earthquakes. Only recently, we confirmed its innermost part contains distinct seismic anisotropy. In seeking the ways forward, scientists experimented with earthquake coda correlation. This contributed to the rise of a new paradigm – the coda-correlation wavefield.

The first applications proved the inner core’s solidity by unambiguously detecting shear waves and anisotropy in shear. Then it was shown that a single seismograph and global-scale waveform cross-correlations between seismic events (inter-source correlation) could be used to scan planetary cores. This technique allowed the team involved to constrain the sizes of the cores of Earth and Mars and confirmed that the Martian core is large.

In this session, special guest speaker Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić will demonstrate how the coda-correlation studies – apart from further development and the proliferation of seismic sensors – may play a central role in global and planetary seismology in the coming decades.

In this informative webinar + Q&A, Professor Tkalčić presents a fascinating new look at these innovative methods that you won’t want to miss.

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KMI-LNG: Ensuring Operational Continuity and Safety for LNG Facilities

Featuring Mauricio Ciudad-Real, Kinemetrics Inc.

Protecting liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities is critical to maintaining access to cleaner energy for communities around the world. Catastrophic losses result from interrupted operations at LNG facilities during earthquakes. Accurate assessment of structural impact, and informative alerts are vital ingredients to safe and efficient operation of these facilities during an emergency.

Decisions during this kind of emergency are too important to make without reliable and actionable information. Targeting response to the correct actions can be difficult, especially when time and accuracy are essential. In these situations, real-time information on potentially damaging ground motion is required to initiate the proper emergency response procedures.

In this informative webinar + Q&A, Mauricio Ciudad-Real will introduce us to how leading LNG operators monitor their facilities, understand the status of their structures, and leverage data to manage emergency response decisions more confidently before, during, and after earthquake events.

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The 99% Data Return Recipe

Featuring Dr. Mathias Franke, Kinemetrics Inc.

99% Data Return over an entire year – No Timing Issues – No Micro Gaps. These performance indicators tell the story of sound engineering, outstanding dataloggers, and enterprise-class software.

Data return is the ultimate benchmark of the success of any environmental monitoring network. Without data, operators gain no value from their investment in the system. Systems related to the observational sciences (e.g., seismic networks, etc.) rely even more heavily upon high data returns. You can’t schedule an earthquake, so if the system misses data, generates error-laced returns, or experiences downtime, entire events can be missed.

In this informative webinar + Q&A, Dr. Mathias Franke describes how to achieve the lofty target of 99% data return with pristine timing in real-world seismic systems. This presentation places particular emphasis on the practical application of specific technology based upon a proven track record of delivering unmatched data return in large mission-critical systems.

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Virtual Antelope User Group Meeting 2023

Featuring a lineup of esteemed Guest Speakers

Boulder Real Time Technologies (BRTT) and Kinemetrics are hosting a Virtual Antelope User Group Meeting.

There will be 8 presentations across the TWO-DAY EVENT, each with a question and answer period following the presentation.

Here is a look at the schedule:

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9:00am – Kent Lindquist, BRTT

What’s New in Antelope 5.12: Challenges and Future Directions

9:40am – Alex Farrell, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Reimagining How the Alaska Earthquake Center Authoritative Catalog is Generated – Part 1

10:20am – Dr. Mathias Franke, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Seismic Networks in the Cloud

11:00am – Alex Farrell, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Reimagining How the Alaska Earthquake Center Authoritative Catalog is Generated – Part 2

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9:00am – Gary Pavlis, Indiana University

Massively Parallel Analysis System for Seismology (MsPASS): a Framework for New Frontiers in Seismology Research

10:00am – Dennis Pumphry, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Q8’s Mesh Network

10:30am – Jamie Steidl, University of California Santa Barbara

Examples of how Antelope facilitates the engineering research on earthquake effects like nonlinear soil behavior and liquefaction, and on real-time monitoring and alerting for structural systems.

11:00am – Frank Vernon, University of California San Diego

Antelope Structural Health Monitoring Applications

Seismic Networks in the Cloud

Featuring Dr. Mathias Franke, Kinemetrics Inc.

Traditional earthquake data processing is carried out utilizing dedicated hardware in a data center run by the seismic network operator. Such specialized data centers must be carefully planned, and hardware resources (space, power, servers, storage, routers, etc.) are purchased in advance or constantly aggregated/modified/updated.

With the evolution of the internet as the backbone of international data exchange, multi-tenant data centers started to evolve in many fields, eventually resulting in scientific cloud computing.

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the internet. State-of-the-art cloud data centers offer flexibility and scalability for demand-driven processes that can deliver the reliability required for critical observational science and civil protection initiatives such as seismic monitoring networks.

In this session, Dr. Mathias Franke will introduce us to the requirements, challenges, and opportunities provided by cloud-based seismic monitoring solutions such as Kinemetrics’ Aspen platform.

During this informative webinar and Q&A session, Dr. Franke will systematically and financially compares two cloud configurations: one for a small scientific network with a few data users and another for a very large national network with many stakeholders from network operators to emergency officers.

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Improving Operations and Dam Safety with the KMIDam Platform

Featuring Mohamed El Idrissi, Kinemetrics Inc.

KMIDam is a technology platform designed to manage your portfolio of dams with real-time information before, during and post-event. Leveraging a combination of smart sensing, modelling, digital twins, and real-time processing tools, KMIDam provides immediate feedback during events, and tracks changes to your structures that may lead to problems over time.

In this session, Mohamed El Idrissi will provide an overview of the KMIDam platform through the lens of real-world scenarios, including multi-dam and extreme condition implementations.

During this informative webinar and Q&A session, Mr. El Idrissi will discuss how KMIDam enables improved operation and safety by enabling operators to assess the condition of each structure, understand the immediate impact of events, and track changes that happen to structures over time.

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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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Continued Post-Earthquake Safe Operations at LNG Plants

Featuring Mauricio Ciudad-Real, Kinemetrics Inc.

With the international focus on the growing importance of liquefied natural gas as a cleaner energy source, it is imperative that organizations understand how to quickly implement and maintain the required level of operational safety. Safety requirements do not encompass only the actions taken during an emergency event; they represent a continual responsibility to ensure that the LNG plant and personnel maintain safe operations.

In this webinar, Mauricio Ciudad-Real will introduce KMI-LNG, a technology platform designed to meet the specific needs of the energy industry. KMI-LNG delivers real-time earthquake data recording, automatic analysis, notifications, and reports along with state-of-health hardware monitoring via a single platform.

By removing the guesswork for operators and emergency response personnel, KMI-LNG quickly responds when the earthquake occurs providing the information and tools required by plant operators to make the most informed decisions possible.

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