EGU26 - Call for Abstract SM3.5

[Francesco Scotto di Uccio]

Dear Colleague,
We would like to draw your attention to a novel session proposed at the upcoming EGU 2026 (3-8 May 2026, Vienna, Austria & Online):
SM3.5:
Deciphering Seismic Processes through Dense Multidisciplinary Infrastructures.

Conveners: 
Francesco Scotto di Uccio (Università di Napoli Federico II)
Panagiotis Elias (National Observatory of Athens)
Mariangela Guidarelli (National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS)
Dario Jozinović (ETH Zurich)
Monica Sugan (National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS)

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/session/55736

The session addresses how advancements in near-fault observatories and dense multidisciplinary infrastructures enhance our understanding of fault processes and induced seismicity. 
Contributions on earthquake and fault zone characterization, integration of seismic, GNSS, DAS, borehole, and geochemical, as well as Earth Observation data, ranging from monitoring to advanced processing techniques, are welcome.

The abstract submission deadline is 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET.

Please, feel free to forward this information to potentially interested colleagues.
Best regards,
The Conveners of the SM3.5 session

Session description:
Over the past decade, advances in near-fault observation technologies have provided new insights into fault mechanics and earthquake generation, enabled by multidisciplinary data acquisition and integrated observations. The combination of dense, multidisciplinary monitoring networks (e.g. Near-Fault Observatories, large-N arrays, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, low cost GNSS) with advanced processing techniques, including deep learning and automatic detection pipelines, improves the characterization of natural and induced earthquakes with unprecedented detail. This multidisciplinary approach reveals fault structures, stress accumulation processes, rupture initiation and evolution, seismicity and fluid migration, aseismic creep and postseismic deformation.

The geoscience community is converging on interdisciplinary approaches that use these observations to answer key questions about earthquake rupture mechanics and seismic hazard.
This session invites contributions presenting new approaches in automated and machine learning-based seismic monitoring, developments in real-time and end-to-end workflows for earthquake detection and characterization, and modeling of rupture processes using data from dense infrastructures. We invite contributions that use multiparameter observation integration, and discuss innovations in instrumentation, including DAS and geochemical sensors. We also encourage contributions on Earth observation, fault imaging, as well as data integration and software development from near-fault observatories and induced-seismicity episodes.

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Francesco Scotto di Uccio
PhD
Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy