AdriaArray – a Passive Seismic Experiment to Study Structure, Geodynamics and Geohazards of the Adriatic Plate

AdriaArray is a multinational initiative to cover the Adriatic Plate and its tectonically active surroundings – including units of Adriatic origin – with a dense regional array of seismic stations. AdriaArray provides data for imaging of the crustal and upper mantle structure and for the analysis of seismic activity and hazard. It will help to understand the causes of active tectonics and volcanic fields in the region. The network consists of 1092 permanent and 436 temporary broadband stations from 23 mobile pools. A homogeneous coverage of broadband stations is achieved in an area from the Massif Central in the west to the Carpathians in the east, from the Alps in the north to the Calabrian Arc and mainland Greece in the south. The backbone network (2022‑2026) is complemented by locally densified broadband deployments in the western Carpathians, along the Dubrovnik fault and in the Vrancea region. Data recorded by AdriaArray stations is transmitted in real-time to 12 nodes of the European Integrated Data Archive (EIDA) where it is accessible as a single virtual network. Regular availability and quality checks ensure high data usability. AdriaArray, the largest passive seismic experiment in Europe to date, is based on the cooperation between local network operators, mobile pool providers, technicians, engineers, field teams, researchers, students, and organizations such as ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology) and EPOS (European Plate Observing System). The AdriaArray Seismology Group, founded in 2022, encompasses 64 institutions from 30 countries with 451 participants. Initial Collaborative Research Groups have been established to coordinate data analysis and scientific research. We present the evolution of the experiment and its objectives, describe its preparation and planning, and show maps of the AdriaArray Seismic Network, station properties and coverage. We further describe the data archiving and distribution, list the participating institutions, individuals and networks and discuss collaborative research topics.

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Published: Sep 29, 2025
Vol/Issue: 68(5)
Pages: DM555

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Petr Kolínský

Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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Thomas Meier

Institute for Geosciences, University of Kiel, Germany

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Matthew R. Agius

Department of Geosciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

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Almir Bijedić

Hydrometeorological Institute of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Götz Bokelmann

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Austria

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Felix Borleanu

National Institute for Earth Physics, Magurele, Romania

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Dušica Brnović

Sector of Seismology, Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

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Musavver Didem Cambaz

Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Boğaziçi University, Çengelköy-İstanbul, Türkiye

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Fabio Cammarano

Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

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Martina Čarman

Seismology Office, Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Carlo Cauzzi

Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology, ORFEUS

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Dragana Chernih

Seismological Observatory, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia

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Kristian Csicsay

Earth Science Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Snježana Cvijić Amulić

Republic Hydrometeorological Service, Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Wojciech Czuba

Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish AdriaArray Seismic Group, Warsaw, Poland

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Jordi Diaz

Geo3Bcn-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

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Liliya Dimitrova

National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

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Edmond Dushi

Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania

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Christos P. Evangelidis

Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Claudio Faccenna

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

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Liudmyla Farfuliak

Subbotin Institute of Geophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine

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Wolfgang Friederich

Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

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Gergana Georgieva

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria

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Nikolaus Horn

GeoSphere Austria, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik – ZAMG, Vienna, Austria

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Ines Ivančić

Croatian Seismological Survey, Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

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Yan Jia

GeoSphere Austria, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik – ZAMG, Vienna, Austria

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George Kaviris

Section of Geophysics-Geothermics, Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

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István János Kovács

HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, HUN-REN EPSS, Sopron and Budapest, Hungary

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Sergei Lebedev

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Eline Le Breton

Universitè de Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes – UMR 6118, Rennes, France

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Renata Lukešová

Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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Stanisław Mazur

Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Carpathian Project Group, Warsaw, Poland

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Mark van der Meijde

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation-ITC, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

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Irene Molinari

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Bologna, Italy

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Shemsi Mustafa

Seismological Network of Kosovo, Geological Survey of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo

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Thorsten Nagel

Institute of Geology, Faculty of Geosciences, Geoengineering and Mining, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

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Søren Bom Nielsen

Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

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Anne Obermann

Swiss Seismological Service at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich-ETH, Switzerland

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Costas Papazachos

Geophysical Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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Stefano Parolai

Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Geosciences, University of Trieste, Italy

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Anne Paul

Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IRD, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, French consortium Grenoble-Toulouse-Strasbourg, Grenoble, France

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Claudia Piromallo

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Roma, Italy

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Vladimír Plicka

Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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Andreas Rietbrock

Geophysical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology-KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Stéphane Rondenay

Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Norwegian Broadband Pool, Bergen, Norway

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Giuliana Rossi

National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Centre for Seismological Research, Trieste, Italy

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Georg Rümpker

Faculty of Geosciences and Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

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Christian Schiffer

Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden

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Antje Schlömer

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München-LMU, Germany

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Karin Sigloch

Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire Côte d’Azur, CNRS, IRD, Géoazur, Sophia Antipolis, France

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Hanna Silvennoinen

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, Finland

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Efthimios Sokos

Laboratory of Seismology, Department of Geology, University of Patras, Greece

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Petr Špaček

Institute of Physics of the Earth, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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Josip Stipčević

Andrija Mohorovičić Geophysical Institute, Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

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Andrea Tallarico

Department of Earth and Geo-environmental Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

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Timo Tiira

Institute of Seismology, University of Helsinki, Finland

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Frederik Tilmann

Department of Geosciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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Dejan Valčić

Seismological Survey of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

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Joachim Wassermann

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München-LMU, Germany

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Viktor Wesztergom

HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, HUN-REN EPSS, Sopron and Budapest, Hungary

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Anila Xhahysa

Department of Seismology, Institute of Geosciences, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania

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Mladen Živčić

Seismology Office, Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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the AdriaArray Seismology Group

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Petr Kolínský, Thomas Meier, Matthew R. Agius, et al. (2025). AdriaArray – a Passive Seismic Experiment to Study Structure, Geodynamics and Geohazards of the Adriatic Plate. Annals of Geophysics, 68(5), DM555. https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-9284

AdriaArray – a Passive Seismic Experiment to Study Structure, Geodynamics and Geohazards of the Adriatic Plate

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