Seismic Monitoring
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences carries a project of the Ministry of Environment: "Monitoring of Seismic Hazard of Territory of Poland". The Project is financed from funds of the National Fund for Environment Protection and Water Management (contract no. 445/2007/Wn-07/F6-bp-tx/D) in the period mid-2008 to end-2012.
The goal of the project is to reconnoitre the seismic hazard of Polish territory accounting for every type of seismic event with epicentre of Polish soil. The effect of the study is to be a map of seismic hazard, showing spatial probability distribution of seismic events taking place in a prescribed period of time. This information is especially important when planning large engineering construction such as nuclear power plants or water dams.
The project involves two stages:
Stage I – to be run mid-2008 to mid 2010
Maintenance of seismic monitoring of southern Poland, with special attention to:
- Podhale and Zips regions, in particular the Orava – Nowy Targ Basin;
- Sadecki Beskid area, in particular the region near Krynica and Wysowa;
- Silesian Beskid area, in particular the region near Cieszyn and Bielko Biala;
- Sudetes Area, in particular the Sudedes Margin Fault and Klodzko Valley
Stage II – to be run mid-2010 to mid-2012
Maintenance of seismic monitoring of central and northern Poland, with special attention to:
- Suwalki Province, in the first place the area located the closest to the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania;
- Western Pomerania, in particular the region near Kolobrzeg and Koszalin;
- Selected regions of Teisseyre – Tornquist zone in central Poland;
- Proposed locations of nuclear power plants in Poland.
In southern Poland there have been deployed 24 stations.
Seismic network in the Carpathians.
Seismic network in the Sudetes.
