The EPOS thematic Core Service on Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS-AH): a Hotspot for Geothermal Research

Abstract

The EPOS TCS-AH (https://tcs.ah-epos.eu/) is designed as a functional e-research infrastructure that provides access to a large set of relevant data and allows free experimentations in a virtual laboratory, promoting interdisciplinary collaborations between stakeholders (the scientific community, industrial partners and society). The platform provides datasets as Episodes, which comprehensively describe Anthropogenic Hazards (AH) cases for infrastructures, people and/or environment. They are grouped in several categories of subsurface exploitations, one of them being geothermal energy production. Datasets describe various projects, including Soultz-sous-Forêts, Gross Schoenebeck, St. Gallen, The Geysers, Carbfix. Users can access relevant datasets (e.g. seismic waveforms and catalogue), industrial data (e.g. well path, injection rates, wellhead pressure), and other geodata (e.g. geological section, velocity model, faults). The platform grants access to an application portfolio, designed for the AH area, from basic services (data integration and handling, physical modeling) to probabilistic assessments of anthropogenic seismic hazard and to simulator for multi-hazard/multi-risk assessment in exploration/exploitation of georesources. Two local data centers (eNodes: IG-PAS/Poland and CDGP-EOST/France) provide the metadata and data to the TCS-AH platform in commonly used standards and formats (e.g. miniSEED, GeoTIFF, and .mat). A registration/authorization is mandatory to access some data covered by restriction imposed by data industry providers or shared data embargoed by running projects. TCS-AH is one of the 10 TCS forming the EPOS infrastructure, and hosts data from other EU projects like SHEER and S4CE.