Evaluation of the potential for large
earthquakes in present-day low seismic activity regions of Europe
Workshop 13 – 17 March 2000
Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium
The meeting will be held at the " ferme
de Dry Hamptay " in Han-sur-Lesse.
PROGRAM
Talks resulting from the
PALEOSIS-project are indicated by the project logo.
Monday 13 March 2000
- 8h30m – 9h30m:
Welcome of the participants – Inscriptions
- 9h30m – 10h00m :
Opening ceremony
- 10h00m – 10h30m :
Camelbeeck T. and paleosis working group. PALEOSIS -
why, how and main results.
- 10h30m – 11h00m :
COFFEE BREAK
- 11h00m – 11h30m :
Allman A. and Smolka A. - Increasing loss potential
in earthquake risk – a reinsurance perspective
- 11h30m – 12h00m :
Atakan K. and paleosis working group - seismic
hazard and long-term seismic activity in Europe.
- 12h00m – 12h30m:
Galadini F., Galli P., Molin D., Ciurletti G., Giaccio B.,
Messina P., Pisu N. and Zamboni S. – Tentative
individuation of the 1117 Verona earthquake source in
northern Italy through a multidisciplinary approach.
- 12h30m – 14h00m :
DINER (at the Dry Hamptay for all the participants)
- 14h00m – 14h30m :
presentation of the PALEOSIS-video
- 14h30m – 15h00m:
Onida M., Galadini F., Forcella F. – Investigating
large scale mass movements in the Central Alps by means
of paleoseismological techniques: the case of the
Mortirolo Pass (Italy)
- 15h00m – 15h30m :
Cushing E., Lemeille F., Cotton F., Grellet B., Menillet
F., Audru J.C., Renardy F. and Flehoc C. -
Paleoearthquakes investigation in the Upper Rhine Graben.
- 15h30m – 15h50m :
Hibsch C., Malartre F., Durand M., Huault V., Cushing M.
and Lemeille F. – Analysis of Quaternary soft-sediment
deformation features in the Upper Rhine Graben:
sedimentological, climatic or co-seismic origin.
- 15h50m – 16h10m: Sébrier
M. and Cabrera J. – Surface ruptures associated with
a 5.3 mb normal faulting event: the 1986 Cuzco earthquake.
- 16h10m – 16h50m :
presentation of posters (5 min each)
- Larroque C. et al. – Joint
multidisciplinary studies of active faults and
seismic hazard at the junction between southern
French Alps and the Ligurian basin.
- Reicherter K. et al. –
Paleoseismic studies in the Granada Basin (southern
Spain); evidence for large prehistoric
earthquakes
- Reuther C.-D., Reicherter K. and
Reiss S. – the application of Ground-Penetrating
Radar (GPR) in paleoseismological investigations:
some case studies from Sicily and North German
Basin.
- Heinze B., Michel G. and Kharadze
G. – Evidence for prehistoric intraplate
earthquakes in the Andean Fore Arc.
- Vandycke S., Dejonghe L., Delaby S.
and Hance L. – Structural analysis in term
of paleostress of the Givestian limestones around
the Hotton cave.
- Rypens J. and Sintubin M. –
The Roer Graben boundary system revisited
- Demoulin A. and Pissart A. –
Landslides in the Verviers area (eastern Belgium):
climate- or earthquake- induced features?
- Vanneste K., Verbeeck K.,
Camelbeeck T., Meghraoui M., Paulissen E. and
Frechen M. – A 150-kyr. record of surface
faulting from a new trench site across the Bree
fault escarpment, Roer Graben.
- Verbeeck K., Beatse H., Vanneste K.,
Renardy F., Van Der Meer H. and Roy-Chowdhury K.
– Geomorphic and geophysical reconnaissance
of the Reppel and the Bocholt faults, NE Belgium.
- 17h00m : departure
for the Han caves – visit of the caves and cocktail
to the invitation of the "Société Anonyme des
Grottes de Han".
Tuesday 14 March 2000
- 9h00m – 9h20m :
Meghraoui M., Delouis B. and Gross R. – Active
normal faulting in the epicentral area of the 1356 Basel
earthquake (Switzerland).
- 9h20m – 9h40m : Van
Vliet-Lanoë B., Mansy J.L., Meilliez F. and Laurent M.
– Neotectonic and seismic activity in the English
Channel and Dover Strait: the differentiation between co-seismic
and periglacial deformations.
- 9h40m – 10h10m:
Fleta J., Santanach P., Martinez P., Goula X., Grellet B.
and Masana E. – Geologic, geomorphologic and
geophysic approaches for the paleoseismological analysis
of the Amer fault (NE Spain).
- 10h10m – 10h30m :
Masana E., Villamarin J., Sanchez Cabanero J., Plaza J
and Santanach P. – Seismological behavior of a fault
with no historical seismicity: El camp fault (northeastern
Iberian peninsula).
- 10h30m – 11h00m :
COFFEE BREAK
- 11h00m – 11h30m :
Bonino E. and Pirard E. – Geological Information
System for paleoseismological data retrieving and
analysis.
- 11h30m – 12h00m :
Meghraoui M., Calais E. and Camelbeeck T. – Active
deformation in intraplate Europe:faulting processes and
related seismic hazard assessment
- 12h00m – 12h30m:
Camelbeeck T., Martin H., Vanneste K., Meghraoui M.,
Verbeeck K. and Brondeel M. – Geomorphic evidence of
active faulting in slow deformation areas: the example of
the Lower Rhine Embayment.
- 12h30m – 14h00m :
DINER (at the Dry Hamptay for all the participants)
- 14h00m – 15h30m :
Atakan K. et al. – uncertainties in paleoseismology
- 15h30m – 16h00m :
Jongmans D., Teerlynck H. and Renardy F. – The use
of geophysical prospecting for paleoseismology in the
Rhine Graben: potentialities and perspectives.
- 16h00m – 16h30m :
COFFEE BREAK
- 16h30m – 16h50m:
Siame L., Sébrier M. and Bellier O. – Cosmic Ray
Exposure dating: a new tool to improve seismic hazard
assessment. Examples from Argentine.
- 16h50m – 17h10m:
Michel G., Reigber C., Yu Y., Zhu S., Reicherter K.,
Michajljow W., Lemzin I, Gräfe K. and Chedia –
Intraplate earthquakes and strain accumulation in Central
Asia derived using the GPS and paleoseismological
investigations.
- 17h10m – 17h30m:
Dusar M., Rypens J., Sintubin M. and Wouters L. –
Fault pattern of the Feldbiss fault system, based on high
resolution reflection seismic survey carried out in 1999:
preliminary results.
- 17h30m – 17h50m:
Levret A. and Scotti O. – Quantification of
historical earthquakes.
- 17h50m – 18h10m :
Ranguelov B., Kies A., Papadopoulos G., Pavlides S. and
Shanov S. – The Kresna-Kroupnik active seismogenic
zone – a model of a geodynamic machine.
- 18h30m : departure
for the city of Rochefort where is organized, at the
invitation of the city Council, the offical diner of the
workshop.
Wednesday 15 March 2000
- 9h00m – 9h30m :
Lehman K., Klostermann J., Pelzing R. and Hinzen K.
– Paleoseismic investigation at the Rurrand fault,
FRG.
- 9h30m – 10h00m:
Vanneste K. and Verbeeck K. – Detailed paleoseismic
investigation of the Rurrand fault in Hambach trench,
Germany.
- 10h00m – 10h30m:
Dost B. and Evers L. – Site selection and
interpretation of trenching results along the Peel
boundary fault..
- 10h30m – 11h00m :
COFFEE BREAK
- 11h00m – 11h30m :
van den Berg M. and Lokhorst A. – Paleoseismic
investigation along the Peel fault boundary fault:
geologic setting, site selection and trenching results.
- 11h30m – 12h00m:
Vanneste K., Meghraoui M., Verbeeck K. and Camelbeeck T.
– Surface rupturing history of the Bree fault scarp,
Roer Graben: results from four years of
paleoseismological investigations.
- 12h00m – 12h20m :
Frechen M. – Luminescence chronology of Late
Quaternary earthquake events along the Bree fault
escarpment.
- 12h20m – 12h40m :
Camelbeeck T., Vanneste K., Verbeeck K., Meghraoui M.,
Pelzing R., Hinzen K., Dost B. and van den Berg M. –
Long-term seismic activity in the Lower Rhine Embayment.
- 12h40m – 14h00m :
DINER (at the Dry Hamptay for all the participants)
- 14h00m – 14h30m :
Quinif Y. – Paleoseismic investigations using
deformed speleothems
- 14h30m – 15h00m :
Delaby S., Quinif Y. and Vandycke S.
- 15h00m – 15h30m :
Cadorin JF., Jongmans D., Plumier A., Camelbeeck T. and
Quinif Y. – Modelling of speleothem rupture.
- 15h30m – 15h50m:
Genty D. – Dating of speleothems.
- 15h50m – 16h30m :
COFFEE BREAK
- 16h30m: General
discussion (seismic versus aseismic deformations –
anthropic destruction of active faulting evidence –
anthropic subsidence - ………….)
Thursday 16 March 2000
Excursion in the Hotton cave –
presentation of the developped methodology in the caves to study
past strong earthquakes. Departure at 9h front of the Dry Hamptay
Friday 17 March 2000
Field trip along the southwestern border fault
of the Roer Graben: active fault morphology.