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The European Fault-Source Model 2020 (EFSM20): geologic input data for the European Seismic Hazard Model 2020
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, 00143 Rome, Italy
Laurentiu Danciu
Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Céline Beauval
ISTerre, IRD, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, Grenoble, France
Karin Sesetyan
Boğaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Department of Earthquake Engineering, 34684 Istanbul, Türkiye
Susana Pires Vilanova
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Shota Adamia
Institute of Geophysics, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Pierre Arroucau
Electricité de France, TEGG, Aix-en-Provence, France
Jure Atanackov
Geological Survey of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Stéphane Baize
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Carolina Canora
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias, Dpto. Geología y Geoquímica, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Riccardo Caputo
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Michele Matteo Cosimo Carafa
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, 00143 Rome, Italy
Edward Marc Cushing
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Susana Custódio
Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Mine Betul Demircioglu Tumsa
Turkish Earthquake Foundation, Istanbul, Türkiye
João C. Duarte
Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Athanassios Ganas
National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Athens, Greece
Julián García-Mayordomo
Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC), 28760 Madrid, Spain
Laura Gómez de la Peña
Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Eulàlia Gràcia
Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Petra Jamšek Rupnik
Geological Survey of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Hervé Jomard
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Vanja Kastelic
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, 00143 Rome, Italy
Francesco Emanuele Maesano
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, 00143 Rome, Italy
Raquel Martín-Banda
Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC), 28760 Madrid, Spain
Sara Martínez-Loriente
Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Marta Neres
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, 1749-077 Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Hector Perea
Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Barbara Šket Motnikar
Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mara Monica Tiberti
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, 00143 Rome, Italy
Nino Tsereteli
Institute of Geophysics, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Varvara Tsironi
National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Athens, Greece
Roberto Vallone
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, 00143 Rome, Italy
Kris Vanneste
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Polona Zupančič
Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Domenico Giardini
Institute of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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The success of the geological storage of carbon dioxide is linked to the availability at depth of a capable reservoir and an impermeable caprock. The sealing capacity of the caprock is a key parameter for long-term CO2 containment. Faults crosscutting the caprock might represent preferential pathways for CO2 to escape. A decameter-scale experiment on injection in a fault, monitored by an integrated network of multiparamerter sensors, sheds light on the mobility of fluids within the fault.
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This study presents the European Fault-Source Model 2020 (EFSM20), a dataset of 1248 geologic crustal faults and four subduction systems, each having the necessary parameters to forecast long-term earthquake occurrences in the European continent. This dataset constituted one of the main inputs for the recently released European Seismic Hazard Model 2020, a key instrument to mitigate seismic risk in Europe. EFSM20 adopts recognized open-standard formats, and it is openly accessible and reusable.
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