Presents:
Workshop: Tsunami Warning @Stromboli Island:
Observations, Modelling, Hazard, Forecasting
This workshop is organised as part of the agreement between the Department of Civil Protection (DPC) and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) to develop an integrated monitoring and warning system for the Stromboli volcano. The Workshop is part of INGV's 25 years of activities, a period of great development for tsunami studies and monitoring around the world during which the INGV created the Tsunami Alert Centre for the Mediterranean Sea from the beginning. The workshop has received official endorsement from the United Nations and has been included among the activities planned for the Ocean Decade 2021-2030. The conference, in fact, provides a significant contribution to Challenges No. 5 (ocean-based climate solutions), No. 6 (community resilience to ocean and coastal hazards) and No. 7 (expansion of the Global Ocean Monitoring System) of the Ocean Decade. Experts from INGV and Italian universities will present the state of the art on four main topics: observations, modelling, hazard and forecasting. In particular, researchers from the Laboratory of Experimental Geophysics at the University of Florence will illustrate the current experimental rapid tsunami recognition system of Stromboli. Several international experts in the field (see the program below) will also participate in the event, invited to share their experience and approaches to volcanic tsunami monitoring; their presence will be essential to suggest new research directions related to the workshop topics. Stromboli can become an experimental reference laboratory for all active marine and coastal volcanoes worldwide subject to tsunami risk. In addition to advancing scientific knowledge, the workshop aims to help civil protection, politics and citizens in the tsunami risk mitigation process.
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Description
Phenomena like volcano sector collapse and pyroclastic density currents characterize active volcanoes. In volcanic islands, such phenomena can also generate tsunami, thus constituting a severe hazard for near- and far-field coastal communities, as recently testified by the 2018 Anak Krakatau and 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai events. Also Stromboli volcano, in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy), has shown in the recent past the potential to generate significant tsunamis, in particular due to mass failures along the “Sciara del Fuoco” (the north-western flank of the volcano). Tsunamis ensuing from volcanic processes along the Sciara del Fuoco can reach the Stromboli inhabited coasts in a time as short as 3-4 minutes after their generation, while the Aeolian Islands, the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, and the northern part of Sicily could be hit in 20-30 minutes. Depending on the size of the source, numerical modelling has also shown that tsunami waves can travel across the Tyrrhenian Sea and reach, for example, the coast of Naples in less than 90 minutes.
The present workshop is organized in the framework of the agreement between the Department of Italian Civil Protection (DPC) and the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) to develop an integrated monitoring and warning system for the Stromboli volcano; this initiative will benefit from the collaboration between INGV and some Italian Universities already involved in those activities, and it fits nicely into the celebrations for the 25th INGV anniversary. The workshop is recognised as relevant to the goals of the United Nation Ocean Decade 2021-2030, for which it has received endorsement. The workshop, indeed, contributes to the Decade Challenges No. 5 (to Unlock ocean-based solutions to climate change); No. 6 (to Increase community resilience to ocean and coastal risks) and No. 7 (to Sustainably expand the Global Ocean Observing System).
The focus of the workshop will be on the tsunami warning in Stromboli. The local experts involved (INGV and Italian Universities) will present the state of the art regarding four main topics: observations, modelling, hazards, and forecasting. Many experts have been invited from different part of the world to present their experience and monitoring approaches regarding tsunamis generated by volcanic sources, and review what we have in place, discuss improvements based on the current knowledge, and suggest new research directions.
This workshop is a first attempt to foster collaboration among Institutions, Warning centres, and researchers to better understand the volcanic/tsunamigenic phenomena regarding, in particular, Stromboli and to, more in general, lay the foundations for more effective and standard tsunami alerting procedures for non-seismic tsunami events. Achieving these objectives can help Civil protection, policy, and decision-makers in the tsunami mitigation risk process and contribute to the tsunami warning systems coordinated by the IOC/UNESCO worldwide.
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