IV IWSRAD – Movimientos Sísmicos

Introduction

The Valencian Community and, in particular, the province of Alicante has a seismic risk factor that makes it advisable to prepare the entire National and Regional Civil Protection System, as well as other components of society, in terms of prevention, planning and management of seismic emergencies. In addition, recent phenomena such as the DANA that occurred in the Vega Baja of Alicante during 2019 or the one that occurred in the south of Valencia and north of Alicante in 2024 highlight the importance of knowing and being prepared for extreme meteorological and seismic events.

The MAIN OBJECTIVE of this activity is to contribute to the reduction of the risk of natural disasters through the sharing of the most current research being carried out by the scientific community among scientists, engineers, personnel in charge of emergency management and planning (town councils, police, civil protection, etc.). It will also be a way of increasing the resilience of Alicante society and attendees in general, in the face of major catastrophes, particularly those of seismic and meteorological origin.

The aim is to achieve this general objective by proposing a series of presentations related to the management of emergencies, seismic risk, climate change and extreme events by researchers from the FAST-IMPACT project as well as by invited international researchers and emergency management technicians. The presentations will focus on:

Local characterisation of seismic hazard and early ground motion forecasting.
Latest advances in the use of ambient noise for the determination of site effects.
Strong ground motion and the derivation of site effect factors.
Factors influencing ground motion in the vicinity of faults
Assessment of seismic vulnerability of buildings and historical heritage
Structural health monitoring for rapid damage estimation
Seismogenic processes of earthquake sources
Seismic and tsunami scenarios for risk management
Earthquake and tsunami disaster reduction
Landslide risk estimation and risk reduction.
Climate change and extreme events
Numerical modelling of extreme weather events
Other studies

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Conference Organization

The conference is organized by the University of Alicante and the Municipality of Orihuela

Organizing Committee

Assoc. Prof. Sergio Molina Palacios (UA)
Prof. Juan J. Galiana Merino (UA)
Assoc. Prof. Igor Gómez Domenech (UA)
Assoc. Prof. Arianna Guardiola Villora (UPV)
Dr. Jose A. Huesca Tortosa (UA)
Dr. Juan Luis Soller Llorens (UA)
Gonzalo Ortuño Saez (Ayto. Orihuela)
Francisco Massip Andujar (Ayto. Orihuela)
Victor Valverde Saez (Ayto. Orihuela)
David Montiel López (UA)
Dr. Daniela Khün (NORSAR, Norway)
Dr. Atefe Darzi (UICE- Iceland)

Advisory Committee

Assoc. Prof. Sergio Molina (UA-Spain)
Prof. Juan J. Galiana (UA-Spain)
Prof. Pedro Alfaro (UA-Spain)
Prof. Jose Delgado (UA-Spain)
Dr. Juan L. Soler (UA-Spain)
Dr. Boualem Y. Nassim Benabdeloued (UA-Spain)
Assoc. Prof Arianna Guardiola (UPV-Spain)
Assoc. Prof. Yolanda Spairani (UA-Spain)
Dr. Alireza Kharazian (Spain)
Assoc. Prof. George Hlopuis (UNIWA-Greece)
Dr. Dominik H. Lang (NGI-Norway)
Dr. Atefe Darzi (UIce- Iceland)
Dr. Daniela Khün (NORSAR, Norway)
Prof. Dina D’Ayala (UCL, United Kingdom)
Dr. Atefe Darzi (UIce – Iceland)
Dr. Elisa Zuccolo (OGS-Italy)
Dr. Antonella Peresan (OGS-Italy)

Conference Venue

IV IWSRAD will take place in the conference room of the Auditorio La Lonja located in Orihuela city (11 – 12 December 2025).

Orihuela municipality is located in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Orihuela municipality has been exposed to important damage and losses due to natural hazards. More recently on September 2019 when the municipality was collapsed by the flooding that was triggered by two days of uninterrupted storm with precipitation of 346.2 mm in one day.Additionally, in the past, the municipality was heavily affected by the 1829 Torrevieja earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude around 6.5 which cause the collapse of many buildings and hundreds of fatalities. The fast urban development of the municipality, which is composed of an old part (declared city of historical heritage) and a new part (close to sea) is perfect to explore different scenarios related to accessibility, evacuation, etc. in different conditions

The Alicante province has been affected by several damaging historical earthquakes, being the 1829 Torrevieja earthquake (maximum felt intensity IX-X) the most important.