IGUP and nuclear seismology in Portugal [O IGUP e a sismologia nuclear em Portugal]

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

Moura, R (Author) FCUP; Sant'Ovaia, H (Author) FCUP; Simao, B (Author) Other; Santos, C (Author) Other; Freitas, JM (Author) Other; Teixeira, L (Author) Other; Ferreira, R (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Comunicações Geológicas

Vol. 101

Pages: 361-364

ISSN: 0873-948X

Publisher: LNEG - Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia

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Abstract (EN): The Geophysical Institute of the University of Porto (IGUP) is an important marker in the scientific and technological culture developed over more than a century in the city of Porto, thus a strategy is being planned out for its recovery. This mission aims to take advantage of all the activities in the history of this institution, taking into account several components such as research in areas of natural hazards, seismology, weather and radiometry, support for graduate and post-graduate education at the University of Porto, scientific dissemination, training addressed to students of the 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education and in the context of extracurricular activities that are currently the responsibility of the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia as well as the installation of a pole of the Science Museum of the University of Porto. This infrastructure has some instruments related to seismology, meteorology and radiation, which are directly related to the measurement of variables involved in the estimation of seismic, meteorological and radiological hazards and can thus relate to risk estimation. As such, it has the potential to become a center for research in Natural Hazards, which may contribute with studies, data and parameters for civil society and the scientific community. The recovery that is now underway in the previously integrated PTO seismic station - Worldwide Standardized Seismographic Network (WWSSN), can help to achieve the implementation of a center of research in seismology and simultaneously acknowledge the geopolitical importance of this station. As such, in the present work we intend to show part of the analysis of seismic records relating to previously unknown Soviet nuclear explosions as well as bringing back to life inactive equipment that was switched off since the 1990s and thus enabling the recording of more modern digital seismic records. © 2014 LNEG ¿ Laboratório Nacional de Geologia e Energia IP.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific