Composite view of the EPOS infrastructure showing existing networks with seismometer and typical site, experimental laboratories, tomographic results obtained from the recorded data and simulation of volcano eruption.
e-science plays a pivotal role for EPOS
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EPOS: European Plate Observing System

Research Infrastructure and e-Science for Data and Observatories on Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Surface Dynamics and Tectonics.

What ?

The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) is the integrated solid Earth Sciences research infrastructure approved by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and included in the ESFRI Roadmap in December 2008. EPOS is a long-term integration plan of national existing RIs.

 

Why ?

The goal of EPOS is to promote and make possible innovative approaches for a better understanding of the physical processes controlling earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, unrest episodes and tsunamis as well as those driving tectonics and Earth surface dynamics.