SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

The November 26, 2019 Mw6.4 Durres, Albania Earthquake: Regional Seismicity, Regional Geodynamics and Seismic Hazard (ISDE-2023)
FIRST DAY MARCH 28
8:00 – 9:00  REGISTRATION
9:00 – 9:45  WELCOME SPEECHES
 SESSION 1.  REGIONAL SEISMICITY AND GEODYNAMICS
09:45 – 10:00 “Extreme earthquakes in Central Mediterranean. The 1743 Ionian strong event case study revised” Spyros Pavlides, Ioannis Papaioannou
10:00 – 10:15  “Active tectonics of Western Balkans from GPS, earthquake Focal Mechanism Solutions, and Active Fault” Nicola D’Agostino
10:15 – 10:30  “Geophysical investigations and Morphotectonic evidence of active tectonics in Western Albania” Ismail Hoxha, Petraq Naço, Dashamir Gega, Rrapo Ormeni, Rrezart Bozo, Luigi Piccardi, Pio Di Manna, Eutizio Vittori, Anna Maria Blumetti, Valerio Comerci
10:30 – 10:50 COFFE BREAK
10:50-11:05  “Different Kinds of Faults Make Different Kinds of Earthquakes: Case Studies of the World’s Largest Earthquakes” Shyqyri Aliaj
11:05 – 11:20  “Near Surface Attenuation Kappa and Coda Q from Albania” Jens Havskov, Edmond Dushi
11:20 – 11:35  “Straining of the Western Balkans Derived from the FLATSIM Service Products: Insights on the 2019 Durres Earthquake, Albania” Marianne Métois, Cécile Lasserre, Cédric Twardzik, Aimine Meridi, Raphaël Grandin, Marie-Pierre Doin, Olivier Cavalie, Maxime Henriquet, Philippe Durand and the FLATSIM group.
  SESSION 2MW6.4 DURRES EARTHQUAKE: GENERAL OVERVIEW AND SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS
14:00-14:15  “Durres M6.4 Earthquake Sequence: Short Review of Collected Data” Llambro Duni, Edmond Dushi, Agim Seranaj
14:15-14:30  “The 26 November 2019 Durrës earthquake, Albania: co-seismic displacements and occurrence of slow slip events in the year following the earthquake (ISDE-2023) Kristina Matraku, Fraçois Jouanne, Edmond Dushi
14:30-14:45  “Improvements in National Earthquake Monitoring, Data Processing and a Unified Seismic Archive after the November 26, 2019 (Mw6.4) Durres Earthquake in Albania” Edmond Dushi, Jens Havskov, Besian Rama, Ylber Muceku
14:45-15:00 Regional Seismic Monitoring, Durres Earthquake Experience and Results Dragi Dojcinovski, Marta Stojmanovska, Igor Gjeorgjiev, Marina Poposka, Goran Chapragoski, Irena Gjorgjeska, Slavko Milesvki, Vladimir Koviloski
15:00-15:15  AI Based Analysis of the 2019 Mw6.4 Albania Aftershock Sequence: Seismicity and Local Earthquake Tomography” Andrea Rietbrock, Vincent van der Heiden , Bernd Schurr , Edmond Dushi, Jack Woollam, Damiano Koxhaj, Irena Dushi.
15:15-15:35 COFFE BREAK
15:35-15:50  Implementation of continuous regional moment tensor inversion, after the November 26, 2019 Earthquake, in Albania Besian Rama, Edmod Dushi, Damiano Koxhaj
15:50-16:05

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 “Seismic Performance of Masonry Buildings During Earthquakes in Albania. Ishmi Case Study.” Diana Bardhi
16:05-16:20  Using Technology to Assess & Manage the Post-Earthquake Disaster Consequences” Agim Seranaj, Altin Piqani, Altin Seranaj, Edmond Lekaj
16:20-16:35  “Seismic Performance of Ground Improvement- Feedback from Several Earthquakes Based on the Experience of the November 22,2019 Durres Earthquake” Stéphane Brûlé
16:35-16:50  “Comparison of the Losses Estimated with Different Evaluations of the Regional Ground Shaking for the 2019 Durres Earthquake” Enes Veliu, Maria Camila Hoyoz Ramirez, Vitor Silva, and Helen Crowley
16:50-17:05  “EARTHQUAKE-Proof Your Home (EPUH) as a Citizen Science Initiative” Mihail Garevski, Agim Seranaj.

 

SECOND DAY MARCH 29
 SESSION 3. REGIONAL SEISMIC HAZARD AND GROUND MOTION MODELS
09:00-09:15  “The 2022 Update of the Albanian National Seismic Hazard Model” Neki Kuka, Llambro Duni, Anila Xhahysa, Rexhep Koci,Edmond Dushi
09:15-09:30  “National Seismic Hazard Models: how new models from the U.S. could be considered in Albania hazard models” Mark Petersen, Neki Kuka, Llambro Duni, Arben Pitarka
09:30-09:45  “The determination of earthquake location and magnitude from macroseismic data in Albania” Anila Xhahysa, Neki Kuka, Migena Ceyhan, Klajdi Qoshi, Edmond Dushi, Damiano Koxhaj
09:45-10:00  “Seismic Monitoring and Hazard Assessments Through Scientific Collaboration Andrea Chiang, Tuna Onur, Rengin Gök, Tea Godoladze, Anna Berezina, Kasey Aderhold, Katrin Hafner, Robert Woodward, Carlos Herrera, Hektor Babayan, Gurban Yetirmishli, Natalya Mikhailova, Beimbet Ashirov, Natalya Silacheva, Anatoly Ischuk, Sobit Negmatullaev
10:00-10:15  “Comparison of Various Ground Motion Prediction Equations for the Mw6.4 2019 Durres, Albania Earthquake” Edlira Xhafaj, Kuo-Fong, Chung-Han Chan, Jia-Cian Gao
10:15-10:35 COFFE BREAK
10:35-10:50  “Attenuation of the Lithosphere in the Mediterranean Basin” Michael E. Pasyanos, Youssef Timoulali, Jabour Nacer
10:50-11:05  “Unleashing New Knowledge on recent Earthquakes by Using DYRI” Mihail Garevski, Valentina Luckova,Marina Kordoska, Ognen Garevski.
11:05-11:20  “Citizen’s reports sentiment and topic analysis. The case of the November 26th, 2019, Albania earthquake” Diana Contreras, Enes Veliu, Laure Fallou, Rémy Bossu, Matthieu Landès
 SESSION 4. STRONG GROUND MOTION OBSERVATIONS AND PHYSICS-BASED MODELING
14:00-14:15  Strong Ground Motion Modeling of Crustal Earthquakes on a Supercomputing Platform: Application to Mw6.4 Durres Earthquake Arben Pitarka, Llambro Duni
14:15-14:30  “High-Performance Computing Earthquake Ground Motion Simulations with SW4”  Arthur Rodgers
14:30-14:45  “Deterministic 0-5Hz Ground Motion Simulations of the Mw6.5 30 October 2016 Norcia, Italy Earthquake” Aybige Akinci, Arben Pitarka, Pasquale De Gori, and Mauro Buttinelli
14:45-15:00  “Recent Principal Advances and Challenges in the Finite-Difference Modeling of Seismic Motions” Peter Moczo, Jozef Kristek, Jaroslav Valovcan, Martin Galis, and Miriam Kristekova
15:00-15:20 COFFE BREAK
15:20-15:35  “Source and Path Effects Analysis from a Series of SW4 Simulations of Mw 7.0 Earthquake Ground Motions” Ana C. Aguiar, Arben Pitarka, Artie Rodgers
15:35-15:50  “Improving Ground Motion Models by Physics-based Numerical Simulations: The Case of Istanbul” Roberto Paoluci, Maria Infantino, MarCo Stupazzini.
15:50-16:05  “BB-SPEEDset: A validated dataset of near-source earthquake ground motion from 3D physics-based numerical simulations” Chiara Smerzini, Roberto Paolucci, Manuela Vanini
16:05-16:20  “Ice-quake Localization Using Full Wavefield Time Reverse Imaging” Kejdi Lleshi, L.Metvier, R. Brossier, and P. Roux

 

LIST OF PRESENTERS
Prof. Ylber Muceku Department of Geology, Institute of Geosciences, Tirana, Albania
Prof. Spyros Pavlides Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Greece
Dr. Nicola D’Agostino Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy
Prof. Ismail Hoxha Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Tirana, Albania
Prof. Shyqyri Aliaj Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana, Albania
Prof. Jens Havskov University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Dr. Marianne Métois Université de Lyon, France
Prof. Llambro Duni Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Tirana, Albania (Retired)
Phd. c. Kristina Matraku Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Tirana, Albania
Dr. Edmond Dushi Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Tirana, Albania
Dr. Dragi Dojcinovski UKIM-IZIIS, Skopje, N. Macedonia
Prof. Andrea Rietbrock Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dr. Besian Rama Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Tirana, Albania
Dr. Diana Bardhi Dept. of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Metropolitan Tirana University
Dr. Agim Seranaj Faculty of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Dr. Stéphane Brule  MENARD, Paris, France
Dr. Enes Veliu Seismic Risk Engineer RECO Consulting, Albania
Prof. Mihail Garevski ISOGKP, Skopje, North Macedonia
Prof. Dr. Neki Kuka Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Tirana, Albania (Retired)
Prof. Mark Petersen U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, USA
Dr. Anila Xhahysa Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Tirana, Albania
Dr. Andrea Chiang Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA, USA
Phd. c. Edlira Xhafaj Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP)–Earth System Science Program Taiwan
Dr. Michael E. Pasyanos Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA, USA
Dr. Diana Contreras Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Dr. Arben Pitarka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Dr. Arthur Rodgers Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Dr. Aybige Akinci Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
Prof. Peter Moczo Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Dr. Ana C. Aguiar Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Prof. Roberto Paoluci Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Assoc. Prof. Chiara Smerzini  Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Phd. c. Kejdi Lleshi Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland

 

FIELD TRIP MARCH 30-31

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