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Earthquake early warning for transport lines

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  • Désirée Hilbring
  • Tanja Titzschkau
  • Alfons Buchmann
  • Gottfried Bonn
  • Friedemann Wenzel
  • Eberhard Hohnecker

Abstract

This paper analyzes the potential of earthquake early-warning systems for transport lines. The interdisciplinary work focuses on rapidly producing an alert map during an ongoing earthquake as well as providing a damage map immediately after the strong-motion phase that visualizes potential damages to the railway infrastructure. In order to meet these application requirements, a service-oriented architecture based on geospatial standards is specified. This ensures the portability of the system architecture to different geographic regions as well as a potential transfer to other natural disasters and infrastructure systems. The first part of the paper describes the standard-based services of the system architecture together with design principles that are useful for the realization of early-warning systems. In the second part of the paper, an online demonstrator for the exemplary test area in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is presented. The system architecture of the demonstrator includes an earthquake early-warning methodology based on artificial neural networks and an infrastructure-specific damage assessment. The third part of the paper analyzes the potential of implementing low-cost sensors in the track, which would provide a dense network directly at the railway infrastructure. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2014

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  • Désirée Hilbring & Tanja Titzschkau & Alfons Buchmann & Gottfried Bonn & Friedemann Wenzel & Eberhard Hohnecker, 2014. "Earthquake early warning for transport lines," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 70(3), pages 1795-1825, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:70:y:2014:i:3:p:1795-1825
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9609-3
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