The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing global health emergency that has overshadowed almost all aspects of human life in most of the world The seismic monitoring centers are a crucial component of the earthquake crisis management, and continuity of their operations during different crises is critical Occurrence of any unusual condition (such as COVID-19 crisis) could result in failures in detecting seismic events This article aims to share the experiences at the Iranian Seismological Center (IRSC) in 2020 during the first months of the COVID-19 epidemic: how the monitoring changed in comparison with the routine surveillance system One of the main impacts of the pandemic was loss of active stations due to a halt in routine maintenance visits to the seismic stations The restrictions imposed by the government to contain the virus resulted in loss of 8% of the stations of IRSC network We analyze how seismic noise changed during the lockdown The results show that unlike many other places in the world, Iran did not see a seismic noise reduction during the lockdowns from the pandemic In addition, we describe the response of IRSC following large earthquakes The increase in workload after big earthquakes is discussed and some lessons from these crises are shared The need to update seismic monitoring software to allow for some automatic processing and to carefully revise the processing routines to balance the workload during large earthquakes is discussed Also, re-evaluation of seismic station locations for better maintenance access could lead to fewer problems at the time of crisis like the current pandemic © Seismological Society of America

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伊朗地震中心在 COVID-19 大流行期间和大地震发生后的表现

COVID-19 大流行是一种持续的全球卫生紧急情况，几乎掩盖了世界大部分地区人类生活的方方面面 地震监测中心是地震危机管理的重要组成部分，其在不同危机期间的连续运作至关重要任何异常情况（例如 COVID-19 危机）都可能导致无法检测地震事件 本文旨在分享 2020 年伊朗地震中心 (IRSC) 在 COVID-19 流行头几个月的经验：与常规监测系统相比，监测有何变化 大流行的主要影响之一是由于对地震台站的例行维护访问停止，活动台站的丢失 政府为遏制病毒而施加的限制导致失去了IRSC 网络的 8% 的站点我们分析了封锁期间地震噪声的变化结果表明，与世界上许多其他地方不同，伊朗在大流行封锁期间没有看到地震噪声的降低此外，我们描述了大地震后 IRSC 的响应 讨论了大地震后工作量的增加，并分享了从这些危机中吸取的一些教训 需要更新地震监测软件以允许进行一些自动处理并仔细修改处理程序以平衡工作量在大地震期间进行讨论此外，重新评估地震台站位置以更好地维护通道可能会减少当前大流行等危机时期的问题 © 美国地震学会