We will use this new dense seismic network to locate earthquakes in high precision by applying both standard techniques and innovative post-processing methods like cross-correlation and template matching. Applying these methods, we hope to obtain a consistent earthquake catalogue with a lower magnitude completeness threshold by a unit of magnitude and high-precision relocations to enhance catalogue homogeneity. It will enable a better understanding of seismicity in time and space, as well as further analyses of fault-zone structures in high resolution. Ultimately, all this should make future seismic hazard estimates more reliable and robust.

Besides seismological work, geologists and geodynamicists from the University of Zagreb and Bergen will interpret seismic reflection profiles, geological maps, and borehole data for this area obtained in the last 40 years and stored in the Croatian hydrocarbon agency. Additional geology mapping will be done in order to explore structures not covered by the reflection data. Preexisting and newly collected seismic, geophysical and geological data will be used to define seismogenic potential of active faults. The regional and the local 3D crustal models, the high-quality seismic catalogue and knowledge of plate motion are necessary to understand the geodynamics of the area, i.e. interaction of the Adria microplate and the Dinarides.