The LITHOS team installed eighteen broadband stations from the MOBNET pool of the IG CAS in Romania and Bulgaria in June 2022, within the framework of the AdriaArray, a new European geophysical initiative. The AdriaArray will cover the entire Adriatic plate in southeastern Europe with seismic stations and will seek answers to fundamental questions related to plate geodynamics and deformation.
Our data will thus contribute to a broad international research effort. Our team will concentrate mainly on (1) the deep contacts in the Eastern Alps – Carpathians – East European Craton – Pannonian Basin region and (2) on the Adria/European plate contact and structure of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath the central-east Balkans. A better understanding of the crust-lower lithosphere tectonic relation might help to identify zones of potential increased seismic hazard.
This research is supported by the GAČR “MOBNET in AdriaArray“ project.
Fig. 1: Distribution of permanent (red) and temporary seismic stations (various colours) in the AdriaArray. Notice temporary MOBNET stations (with dark blue circles) running in the Czech Republic and eastern Slovakia since 2019 as a part of the PACASE project, now incorporated into the AdriaArray.
Fig. 2: The MOBNET stations (blue triangles) in Romania and Bulgaria – the pioneer installation of the temporary component of the AdriaArray.