IMOR.DG did coordinate the PRENLAB-2 project and was responsible for Subproject 1, Monitoring crustal processes for reducing seismic risk. The commitments of the first year of PRENLAB-2 workprogramme have been fulfilled as detailed below.
The coordinator and contractor was Ragnar Stefánsson. IMOR.DG was responsible for a significant extension of the seismic network, of build-up of the new continuous GPS network and others available for the project, and for operating these networks. It has carried out extensive work in extending, refining and standardizing the earthquake databases as well as related databases on slow changes, where continuous borehole strainmeters are most significant, together with the emerging continuous GPS measurements. It served the other subprojects with data from these databases. It was continuously working on mapping of active faults, in studying seismicity patterns, in enhancing the alert system in Iceland, for developing and testing new algorithms and methods to cope with steadily increasing data acquisition and for enhancing the automatic data evaluation processes. It did cooperate closely with all the other subprojects, and through its coordination all the subprojects were well linked together.
Work has been carried out according to the time schedule of the workprogramme, although there has been more achieved in the data collection than planned, both because of significant earthquake sequences that had to be very well observed and because the observational system has expanded more than had been planned, also because of this increased activity.