LOBSTER - Ligurian Ocean Bottom Seismology and Tectonics Research

The LOBSTER project comprises the offshore component of the AlpArray seismic network using ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) to record teleseismic and local events in order to define subsurface structures at the transition from the Western Alps to the Apennines and to improve our understanding of the 3D-geometry of the system and its kinematics. The LOBSTER network consists of 23 OBS that recorded continuously over a period of 8 month (June 2017 - February 2018). Additionally, two seismic refraction profiles were shot to provide the velocity distribution within the Ligurian Basin lithosphere (Fig. 1) with the aim to image the offshore ocean-continent boundary.