IASPEI 2025 Portugal: S02 Earthquake Data Centers

[Kris Pankow]

Dear Colleagues,

The 2025 IASPEI meeting will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 31 August to 5 September 2025 (https://iaga-iaspei-2025.org). The deadline for submitting abstracts is 12 March (23:59 CET) . 

For those involved in all aspects of operational seismology, we will once again have a session. We encourage those operating and contributing to seismic operation centers to submit an abstract.

Kind regards,

Kris and Dmitry

S02 International, National, Regional and Local Networks and Earthquake Data Centers: Highlights and Challenges

Convener: Dmitry Storchak (UK)
Co-convener(s): Kristine Pankow (USA)

National and regional seismic operation centers play an important role in monitoring for natural earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other phenomena, such as induced seismicity. The products generated by these centers, from raw waveforms to earthquake catalogs are used by a wide variety of stakeholders, including researchers, emergency management agencies, policy makers, educators, regulators, and the general public.
This symposium focuses on the important role that earthquake centers play in advancing scientific study, especially as it relates to local and regional hazard; integrating new technological advances in data acquisition and processing; and communicating earthquake hazard and risk.
We welcome contributions describing new and evolving networks, data policies and data sharing, new processing algorithms, hazard assessments, and novel education and outreach initiatives. Other topics that highlight current advances and challenges for earthquake operation centers are also of interest.
Potential outcomes of the symposium may include summary publications, organized advocacy, and frameworks for closer collaboration.