Towards a Virtual Asian－Pacific Seismological Network

Regional international cooperation in seismic data exchange and joint seismological analysis in the Asian-Pacific regions plays an important role in the reduction of earthquake disasters in these regions as well as the development of global seismology.Based on the up-to-date development of new technology and digital broadband seismology,we discussed the Asian seismological Commission(ASC) Proposal “Asian-Pacific Seismological Data Center“,We applied the concept of virtual seismological network(Ottemoeller and Havskov,1999) to the proposed ASC data exchange program.Based on the development of digital seismology,we in troduced a concept of “modern earthquake catalogues“which include not only location parameters and magnitudes as in the conventional earthquake catalogues but also new parameters of earthquakes such as CMT,radiated energy,STF,and earthquake rupture process,We recommended a webbased regional international data exchange program between the ASC members with the purpose of forming a virtual Asian-Pacific seismological network,and the interpretation and analysis of broadband digital seismic waveforms conducted at distributed“data centers“.

Towards a Virtual Asian-Pacific Seismological Network