On Monday 17 May, they traveled to the southernmost Croatian county to look for possible seismic station locations. First stop was in the area of the Municipality of Dubrovačko Primorje, i.e. the hinterland of Ston and Slano – the epicentral area of the Ston-Slano ML6.0 earthquake in 1996. They found one very good candidate, where they performed preliminary seismic noise measurements for HVSR sprectra analysis, and one good possibility!
On Tuesday 18 May, Josip and Iva traveled to neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina where they met in Ljubinje our team-associate Snježana Cvijić-Amulić and her collegue Milan Janjić form the Sector for Seismology of the Republic hydrometeorological Institute of the Republic of Srpska. We also met shortly the representatives of the Ljubinje Municipality that will help in search for the station location. They visited a few locations and measured seismic noise for preliminary analysis of the location quality.
On Wednesday 19 May, our crew of two went to the STON seismic station, located near Mali Ston, in order to resolve technical dificulties. They faced a rather unusual problem that could not be solve without returning to Dubrovnik first, so the repair was postponed for Friday on the way back to Zagreb. In the early afternoon, Josip and Iva met Mato TOmljanović from the Dubrovnik-Neretva County, the project's partner, to discuss our project activities – especially the requirements for the locations of temporary seismological stations. After the pleasent meeting, Iva and Josip continued their scouting in the southern part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County, in the area of Konavle and Gruda.
On Thursday 20 May, Iva nad Josip traveled by a ship to the island of Šipan. By local transportation and by walking they scouted for possible location and they stumbled upon a perfect one! It was a rather nice mixture of work and pleasure on a lovlely sring day on a beautiful island.
Friday 21 May was scheduled for return to Zagreb with a stop at the STON seismic station. Problem was successfully resolved – the station is working properly again – and in the evening Josip and Iva safely returned to Zagreb. Here has to be acknowledged the help in overcoming the techincal deficulties of a young collegue Luka Glamuzina at the Laboratory for Mariculture of the University of Dubrovnik.
In the end, this first field-work within the DuFAULT project was a success!