The FOCUS project offshore Catania, Sicily (FOCUS = Fiber Optic Cable Use for Seafloor studies of earthquake hazard and deformation)


Marc-Andre Gutscher1, Jean-Yves Royer2, David Graindorge3, Shane Murphy4, Frauke Klingelhoefer5, Chastity Aiken6, Antonio Cattaneo4, Giovanni Barreca7, Lionel Quetel8, Giorgio Riccobene9, Florian Petersen10, Morelia Urlaub10, Sebastian Krastel11, Felix Gross12 and Heidrun Kopp10, (1)CNRS & University of Brest, Lab Geosciences Ocean, Brest, France, (2)Univ. Brest / CNRS, Laboratoire Geosciences Ocean, Plouzane, France, (3)Geo-Ocean, Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR5638, Plouzané, France, (4)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (5)Geo-Ocean, Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR6538, Plouzané, France, (6)IFREMER, Geosciences Marines, Plouzané, France, (7)Catania University, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Catania, Italy, (8)IDIL Fiber Optics, Lannion, France, (9)INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy, (10)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (11)Kiel University, Institute of Geosciences, Marine Geophysics and Hydroacoustics, Kiel, Germany, (12)University of Kiel, Institut fuer Geowissenschaften, Kiel, Germany