DAY ONE
– MONDAY, AUGUST 21
09:00 Opening address
Steinunn S. Jakobsdóttir
09:05 Keynote lecture
Presentation
of International Centre for Geohazards (ICG) and discussion on challenges in
geohazards-related research
Farrokh Nadim
09:45 Seismic hazard assessment – engineering seismology
The
confidence of earthquake damage scenarios; Examples from the capacity spectrum
method
Sergio Molina & Conrad D. Lindholm
Public
usage of a website for real-time seismicity in Iceland: Insights into hazard
perception
Deanne Bird, Matthew J. Roberts & Dale Dominey-Howes
10:30 –
10:50 Coffee break
10:50 Seismic detection - verification
The
mb(Ms) diagram for Iranian earthquakes obtained from the International
Monitoring System
Ingvar Nedgård
Data
processing and analysis of infrasound signals in Fennoscandia and NW Russia
Tormod Kværna, Johannes Schweitzer, Frode Ringdal & Steven J. Gibbons
Considerations
in event detection and location using small-aperture seimic arrays
Steven J. Gibbons, Tormod Kværna & Frode Ringdal
Microseismic
monitoring at the unstable rock-slope site at Åknes, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Michael Roth & Lars H. Blikra
12:15 –
13:30 Lunch break
13:30 Keynote lecture
Earthquake
prediction research and the June 2000 earthquakes
Ragnar Stefánsson
14:10 Seismicity – noise studies
Analysis
of seismic noise at Icelandic network (SIL) stations
Kristín S. Vogfjörð
Microseimic
studies at Hagfors array, Sweden
Leif Persson
Seismicity
in Sweden from five years of digital recordings
Reynir Böðvarsson & Björn Lund
Seismological
monitoring in Lithuania during the period 1999-2005
Andrius Pačėsa
15:35 Poster session
Strain
and stress on the Reykjanes Peninsula
Marie Keiding, Björn Lund, Þóra Árnadóttir & Erik Sturkell
15:40 -
16:00 Coffee break
16:00 Seismicity – noise studies (continued)
Earthquake
activity in the Rana region recorded by a local seismic network and a seismic
array
Mathilde B. Sørensen, Steven J. Gibbons & Jens Havskov
Increased
earthquake activity along the divergent plate boundary near the Askja volcano,
Iceland
Heidi Soosalu,
Páll Einarsson, Ásta Rut Hjartardóttir, Steinunn S. Jakobsdóttir, Rikke
Pedersen, Erik Sturkell & Robert S. White
Increasing seismicity
beneath Vatnajökull ice-cap: artifact or reality?
Matthew J. Roberts & Hannah Evans
17:05
End of day one
17:10
Meeting in “The Nordic seismic educational network”
19:00
Dinner
After
dinner we can take a walk and/or relax in the hot tub
DAY TWO
– TUESDAY, AUGUST 22
08:30 Keynote lecture
Fire
and ice on shaky grounds: Living with natural hazards in Iceland
Freysteinn Sigmundsson
09:10 Crustal deformation
EarthScope: Exploring the
structure and evolution of North America
Michael Jackson, David Mencin, Gregory E. van der Vink & Christel
B. Hennet
High-rate
continuous GPS observations in Iceland
Halldór Geirsson & Þóra Árnadóttir
Crustal
stress anomaly before the M=6.5 17 June 2000 earthquake in South Iceland
Björn Lund, Reynir Böðvarsson & Ragnar Slunga
Monitoring
the crustal stress tensor field by microearthquake analysis - new possibilities
for eathquake warning algorithms
Ragnar Slunga
10:35 -
10:55 Coffee break
10:55 Crustal structure – modelling
Subsurface
faults in southwestern Iceland mapped by relatively located microearthquakes
Sigurlaug Hjaltadóttir, Kristín S. Vogfjörð & Ragnar Slunga
Asymmetric
plume-ridge interaction around Iceland: The Kolbeinsey Ridge Iceland seismic
experiment
Bryndís Brandsdóttir & Emilie E.E. Hooft
Tomography
of Rayleigh wave group velocity in South Greenland from correlation of ambient seismic
noise
Peter Voss, Peter
Kyhl Knudsen, Ólafur Guðmundsson, Søren Gregersen, Trine Dahl-Jensen, Winfried
Hanka and Tine B. Larsen
Lithospheric
anisotrophy beneath Greenland from SKS splitting
Nur Ucisik, Ólafur Guðmundsson, Winfried Hanka, Trine Dahl-Jensen, Klaus Modegaard and Keith Priestley
12:20 –
13:30 Lunch break
13:30 Crustal structure – modelling (continued)
Crustal
investigation of the Danish Basin based on ESTRID-1 seismic data
Alessandro Sandrin,
Lars Nielsen and Hans Thybo
A
new 3D seismic tomography model reveals the terrane distribution of
Svecofennian Orogen
Tellervo Hyvönen,
Annakaisa Korja, Timo Tiira, Kari Komminaho and E. Rautioaho
Seismic
images of the accretionary Svecofennian Orogen
Annakaisa Korja,
Pekka Heikkinen, Timo Tiira, Tellervo Hyvönen and FIRE Working Group
Receiver
function analysis of the broad band data of Finnish seismograph network
Jari Kortström, Monika Wilde-Piórko, Timo Tiira and Kari Komminaho
14:55 Special topic
Status
of the Lehmann archive
Erik Hjortenberg
15:10 Fifteen years of SIL automatic monitoring
Steinunn S. Jakobsdóttir
15:50 -
16:20 Coffee break
16:20 Discussion on statues for the Nordic Seminar
Introduction by Ólafur Guðmundsson
17:00 End
of day two
17:00 Sightseeing
at the Nesjavellir geothermal power plant and a reception invited by Reykjavik
Energy
19:00 Dinner
DAY
THREE – WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23
09:00 –
19:00 Field trip through the South Iceland Lowland in conjunction with the
FORESIGHT meeting. The trip will cover earthquakes, hydrothermal processes,
volcanic eruptions, glacial floods etc.