Issues

The following abstracts for the 2001 SSA Annual Meeting arrived too late for inclusion in SRL 72:2.

Earthquake Forecast and Hazard Models: Issues and Inputs for the New Generation

The GeoNet Project: A Modern Geological Hazards Monitoring System for New Zealand

GLEDHILL, K. K. and the GeoNet Team, Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt 6315, Wellington, New Zealand, k.gledhill@gns.cri.nz

New Zealand sits astride the Pacific-Australia plate boundary and is thus prone to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and landslides. In recognition of the geological risk the Earthquake Commission (the government owned provider of disaster insurance in New Zealand) is funding a real-time hazard monitoring and data collection system for on-going research into earthquake, volcano, and other geological hazards. The New Zealand GeoNet will consist of a backbone seismograph network throughout the country, dense regional seismograph (both weak motion and volcano-seismic) and continuous GPS networks in some areas...