Report on the 2024 activity of the EDSF installation
The European Databases of Seismogenic Faults (EDSF) installation operates under the auspices of the EPOS TCS-Seismology work program, particularly those of the EFEHR Consortium, and considers the principles expressed by the EPOS Data Policy. EDSF offers services that distribute data about seismogenic faulting proposed by the scientific community, solicited to the scientific community, or stemming from project partnerships that involved the use or development of the EDSF installation itself.
Portal content updates
Portal updates
- The Seismofaults.eu web portal has been updated with renovated graphics. The CMS “Joomla!” has been updated to the new major release 5.x.
- The web analytics application Matomo has been implemented in order to complement Google Analytics with an open-source platform that is more adherent to privacy-safeguarding principles.
- A mapper to preview datasets web services has been added.
- Meta tags in the header of the EFSM20 and EDSF13 web pages have been added to improve the datasets’ FAIRness.
Datasets
- EFSM20: A new OGC Web Feature Service was added to distribute the fault-source geometries as 3D triangular meshes.
- EDSF13: The dataset was removed from the ICS-C portal and QQuake. A deprecation warning was added to inform users that it is obsolete and has been replaced by EFSM20.
Documentation
- Updated the EFSM20 documentation web page (https://seismofaults.eu/efsm20documentation) with complete file descriptions and attribute table definitions. The EFSM20 documentation was updated and completed with the publication of a descriptive article and an application article. Updated the EFSM20 Data Management Plan.
- New items were added to the public Zotero Group Library.
- Added the portal activity report 2024 (this document).
Portal access statistics
Access to the portal webpages is monitored via Matomo and Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
Unique visitors: The number of unduplicated visitors coming to your website. Every user is only counted once, even if they visit the website multiple times a day.
Visits: If a visitor enters your website or application for the first time, or if they visit a page (or take any action that is tracked in Matomo) more than 30 minutes after their last action, Matomo will record it in a new Visit.
Actions: An ‘Action’ is counted whenever a visitor a) visits a Page, b) clicks a downloadable item or an external link, c) searches on the website search engine, or d) whenever an event is tracked.
Geographic distribution of site usage as monitored by GA4.
Portfolio of distributed services
The portal distributes 48 OGC WFS layers and 56 OGC WMS layers of three different datasets, including multiple versions, as listed in the table below.
| Dataset | Version | Date of publication (MM/YYYY) | OGC WFS layers | OGC WMS layers | ICS-C GUI | DMP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Database of Seismogenic Faults 2013 (EDSF13) | 2013 | 03/2013 | 4 | 8 | Yes | Yes |
| Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS) | 3.2.0 | 06/2015 | 6 | 10 | No | Yes |
| Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS) | 3.2.1 | 04/2018 | 6 | 10 | No | Yes |
| Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS) | 3.3.0 | 12/2021 | 8 | 11 | No | Yes |
| Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS) | Current ≡ 3.3.0 | 12/2021 | 8 | 11 | No | Yes |
| European Fault-Source Model 2020 (EFSM20) | 2020 | 10/2022 | 10 | 6 | Yes | Yes |
| European Fault-Source Model 2020 (EFSM20 Meshes) | 2024 | 11/2024 | 6 | - | Planned | Yes |
Access statistics of distributed services
Access to the distributed web services is monitored using AWStats software. Notice that, differently from web pages, in the case of web services, the term "visitor" refers to a user that performs a query to the dataset. Likewise, the terms "visit" and "hit" must be intended to be equivalent to queries. The term "bandwidth" is the total number of bytes (images and files downloaded) transferred by queries.
Each DISS version includes an access quota to the “current” concurrently active version, currently DISS version 3.3.0. The new web services for EFSM20 Meshes have been monitored since their pre-release in October and have collected 66 unique visitors, 143 visits, 7,272 hits, and 1.71 GB bandwidth.