Earthquake-prediction research in a natural laboratory PRENLAB EC project, Environment and Climate 1994-1998 Contract EENV4-CT96-0252 Proposal PL950257, 2.3.2 Seismic risk

A project reviewing workshop will be held in Strasbourg, March 31, 1999 The location of the meeting is:

Strasbourg

1. Presentations of work status and papers:

   • Frank Roth: Stress changes in Space and Time at the South Iceland Seismic Zone-Model calculations .

   • Stuart Crampin: Succesful Stress-Forcasting-The next Step .

   • Frank Roth: Latest results and Review of the (Repeated) Logging on Iceland. .

   • Ragnar Stefánsson:

     1. A tentative model for the stress build up and stress release in and around the SISZ .
     2. Nucleation of earthquakes in the SISZ .

   • Francoise Bergerat: Abstract-name/presentation .

   • Kurt Feigl: Abstract-name/presentation .

   • Ágúst Guðmundsson: Evolution of stress fields in the SISZ .

   • Thierry Villemin:

     1. Mechanical modeling of the TFZ based on a 1995-1997 GPS comparison
     2. Fault slip distribution along normal faults mesured by kinematic GPS, Theystareykir fissure swarm.
     3. INSAR mapping of the displaments on Tjornes Fracture Zone.

   • Maurizio Bonafede & Maria E. Belardinelli:

     1. Strike-slip faulting in layered media: the role of structural discontinuities as stress attractors.
     2. Heterogeneities left by an earthquake over a plane fault model: instability of simple shear models
     3. Friction coefficient in the shallow crust of the SISZ inferred by secondary earthquake fractures. .
2. Discussion of PRENLAB II matters
   1. The annual report which everybody must send to me within a few weeks.
   2. Work plan and cooperative actions
   3. Next PRENLAB II workshop and the coming EU-Japan workshop in Iceland
3. Discussion of possible future projects
4. Miscellanous

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by Pálmi Erlendsson - pe@vedur.is