Over the past year, the project team has conducted intensive and extensive field work with the aim of collecting quality data and improving the seismological network in the Republic of Croatia. During this period, project associates visited more than 230 locations, ensuring wide spatial coverage and reliability of the collected information. Field work covered the …
On Sunday, June 15, 2025, we headed to the island of Lastovo to install the last three of ten underwater seismometers (Ocean Bottom Seismometer – OBS) from K.U.M. Umwelt- und Meerestechnik Kiel GmbH. Upon arrival on the island of Lastovo, we prepared, assembled and calibrated the instruments to ensure the highest possible quality data collection. …
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On Saturday, May 31, 2025, we headed to the island of Vis to install 4 more Ocean Bottom Seismometer – OBS from the company K.U.M. Umwelt- und Meerestechnik Kiel GmbH. Upon arrival on the island of Vis, we prepared, assembled and calibrated the instruments to ensure the highest possible quality data collection. One instrument was …
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On Sunday, April 27, 2025, we travelled to the island of Cres to install the first underwater seismological devices, specifically Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) from the company K.U.M. Umwelt- und Meerestechnik Kiel GmbH, in the Republic of Croatia. OBS is a specialised instrument placed on the seabed to record seismic waves. It contains a seismometer, …
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As part of the CROSSNET project, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Media, we are installing seismological equipment in cultural heritage sites. We would like to express our special gratitude to the Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and its Director, Mr Tomislav Petrinec, as well as to the conservators and owners …
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On Sunday, May 26th, 2024, part of the associates of the CROSSNET project departed towards the south of the Republic of Croatia to perform field measurements of microseismic noise in order to find the locations for future seismological stations. The locations chosen for the measurements were on the Pelješac peninsula, and on the islands of Korčula …
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From May 8th to 10th 2023, associates of the CROSSNET project, along with the project manager Tomislav Fiket, were carrying out field measurements of ambient microseismic noise in the Baranja region in order to determine locations for the placement of future seismological stations. Prior to the field measurements, a spatial analysis was performed using ArcGIS …
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On Tuesday, April 18, 2023. project associates Antonio Brcković, Vedran Damjanović and Marko Pervan, together with project manager Tomislav Fiket, installed a new accelerograph as part of the maintenance and improvement of the existing stations. At Puntijarka station, the Etna 2 accelerograph, manufactured by Kinemetrics Inc., a device used to record strong nearby earthquakes, was …
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On the morning of February 16th at 09:47 UTC, a strong earthquake occurred near Baška on the island of Krk with an estimated intensity of VI °EMS (European Macroseismic Scale) in the epicentre, which was felt in the broader area of Kvarner, Istria and the hinterland of Rijeka, as well as in the surrounding countries. …
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