SETA

PROGETTO SETA

SEismic hazard assessment for the Tbilisi test Area

Sponsored by: Minister for Foreing Affaire of Italy (MAE) Roma, Italy

Il progetto SETA è una cooperazione supportata dal Governo Italiano con la legge 212/92

OBIETTIVO
SETA mira a trasferire il Know How sismologico, di rischio sismico e di geofisica applicata dall'OGS ai partners Georgiani.

Ci si prefigge di:

Creare una rete sismica di monitoraggio con possibile estensione futura su tutta la Georgia
Trasferire il Know How sull'analisi degli eventi sismici
Trasferire il Know How di geofisica applicata e di remote sensing

The SETA Project is a co-operation project supported by the Italian Government by Italian law 212/92

The importance of seismic hazard is well known for reconstruction after a big earthquake, urban planning and old building retrofitting.

The aim of the project is the transfer of the know how from OGS to the Georgian partners. Topics of the project are: seismology, seismic hazard assessment, and applied geophysics.

The our goals are:

Creation of a seismic monitoring network for a future extension of the study to the whole Georgian Country, using new survey technologies
Know how transfer and technical upgrade for a group of expert researchers and technicians in the analysis of seismic events
Know how transfer and technical upgrade for a group of expert researchers and technicians in applied geophysics and remote sensing

By the SETA project it will be possible to improve the number of seismic stations of the Georgian seismometric network. This will allow the development of many new positive elements, first of all, the definition of a new seismic code for infrastructure and the residential buildings.
The Italo-Georgian group will create new methods and technologies which may be transferred in other field, such as: hydrocarbon, minerals and water searching, archaeological prospecting, landfill studies, construction of new infrastructures (roads, pipelines, etc).
This with the aim of the consolidation of the partnership between OGS and the Georgian team for future project for the economical and social development of Georgia.

PARTNERS: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, M.Nodia Institute of Geophisics. Georgian Academy of Sciences - IG Tbilisi-Georgia, Georgian Technical University - GTU Tbilisi-Georgia

MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT: Acquisition, processing and interpretation GPR data. GPR Lectures.