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id: engines/dt-geo
about:
  label: DT-GEO
  description: >-
    Horizon Europe research project, coordinated by Geosciences Barcelona
    (CSIC), building twelve digital twin components for earthquakes, volcanoes,
    tsunamis and human-induced seismicity, tested at thirteen sites, as a
    pre-operational prototype for Destination Earth.
  tags:
    - earthquakes
    - volcanoes
    - tsunamis
    - induced seismicity
    - geohazards
    - early warning
    - Europe
tool:
  form: research project
  group: Wildfire and risk
  homepage: 'https://dtgeo.eu/'
open:
  source: unknown
  data: unknown
  api: unknown
  participation: unknown
domains:
  - places
relations:
  - predicate: cites
    target: engines/destination-earth
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: DT-GEO
      url: 'https://dtgeo.eu/'
    - title: Project – DT-GEO
      url: 'https://dtgeo.eu/project/'
    - title: Workplan – DT-GEO
      url: 'https://dtgeo.eu/workplan/'
    - title: Site Demonstrators – DT-GEO
      url: 'https://dtgeo.eu/site-demonstrators/'
    - title: Partners – DT-GEO
      url: 'https://dtgeo.eu/partners/'
    - title: Deliverables – DT-GEO
      url: 'https://dtgeo.eu/deliverables/'
  created: '2026-10-20'
  reviewed: '2026-10-20'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
---
DT-GEO stands for Digital Twin for GEOphysical Extremes.[^1] Its simulation tools cover earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes caused by human activity such as geothermal energy projects and mining.[^1,3] Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN, part of the Spanish National Research Council CSIC) coordinates it, and Arnau Folch is project leader.[^5] It brings together 26 research institutions, including ETH Zürich, Italy's INGV and the Icelandic Meteorological Office.[^2,5] Funding comes from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement 101058129.[^1]

Each of the twelve "digital twin components" bundles simulation code, AI methods and live data feeds for one kind of question.[^4] Four deal with volcanoes: unrest, ash clouds and fallout, lava flows, and gases.[^3] One does probabilistic tsunami forecasting.[^3] Six cover earthquakes over long and short time scales, and one forecasts human-induced seismicity.[^3] The components are meant for early warning, hazard assessment and urgent computing (running simulations at short notice during an emergency) on EuroHPC, Europe's shared supercomputers.[^3,4] Outputs are checked against the FAIR data standards (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and work with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).[^1,3]

The components are tested at thirteen site demonstrators:[^3,4]

- Volcanoes: Etna in Italy, and Grímsvötn and Fagradalsfjall in Iceland.
- Tsunamis: the Mediterranean coast as a whole, eastern Sicily, the Chilean coast and the eastern Honshu coast of Japan. Most of this work re-runs past events such as the 2011 Tohoku tsunami.[^4]
- Earthquakes: the wider Euro-Mediterranean region, the central Apennines and the Alto-Tiberina fault in Italy, the Bedretto underground laboratory in Switzerland, and the Alps.
- Induced seismicity: a geothermal site in Strasbourg, France, and the KGHM copper mine in Poland.[^3]

The aim is a pre-operational prototype ready to be integrated into Destination Earth, the European effort to build a high-precision digital model of the Earth.[^1,2] Observations collected by DT-GEO partners are to be fed into the DestinE twin to make it more accurate.[^2] Published deliverables include first and second software releases and a sequence of reports, several marked as submitted.[^6]