Seismicity catalogue for the Eastern Alps (Swath-D)

Cite as:

Hofman, Laurens Jan; Kummerow, Joern; Cesca, Simone; the AlpArray-Swath-D Working Group (2023): Seismicity catalogue for the Eastern Alps (Swath-D). GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2023.024

Status

I N R E V I E W : Hofman, Laurens Jan; Kummerow, Joern; Cesca, Simone; the AlpArray-Swath-D Working Group (2023): Seismicity catalogue for the Eastern Alps (Swath-D). GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2023.024

Abstract

We present a new, consistently processed seismicity catalogue for the Eastern and Southern Alps, based on the temporary dense Swath-D monitoring network. The final catalogue includes 6,053 earthquakes for the time period 2017-2019 and has a magnitude of completeness of −1.0ML. The smallest detected and located events have a magnitude of −1.7ML.

Aimed at the low to moderate seismicity in the study region, we generated a multi-level, mostly automatic workflow which combines a priori information from local catalogues and waveform-based event detection, subsequent efficient GPU-based event search by template matching, P & S arrival time pick refinement and location in a regional 3-D velocity model. The resulting seismicity distribution generally confirms the previously identified main seismically active domains, but provides increased resolution of the fault activity at depth. In particular, the high number of small events additionally detected by the template search contributes to a more dense catalogue, providing an important basis for future geological and tectonic studies in this complex part of the Alpine orogen.

This dataset contains the seismicity catalogue, continuous north-south and east-west cross-sections, as well as the Python codes and relevant metadata used in Hofman et al. (2023).

Authors

Hofman, Laurens Jan;Earth Science Department, Section of Geophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Kummerow, Joern;Earth Science Department, Section of Geophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Cesca, Simone;GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
the AlpArray-Swath-D Working Group

Contact

Hofman, Laurens Jan; Earth Science Department, Section of Geophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany;

Keywords

Seismology, Seismic Waveform Analysis, Eastern Alps, Earthquake, Geophysics, Template matching, 4DMB, 4D Mountain Building, geophysics, seismology, surface processes, tectonics