Mining, water-reservoir impoundment, underground gas storage, geothermal energy exploitation and hydrocarbon extraction have the potential to cause rock deformation and earthquakes, which may be hazardous for people, infrastructure and the environment. Restricted access to data constitutes a barrier to assessing and mitigating the associated hazards. Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS AH) of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) provides a novel e-research infrastructure. The core of this infrastructure, the IS-EPOS Platform (tcs.ah-epos.eu) connected to international data storage nodes offers open access to large grouped datasets (here termed episodes), comprising geoscientific and associated data from industrial activity along with a large set of embedded applications for their efficient data processing, analysis and visualization. The novel team-working features of the IS-EPOS Platform facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary scientific research, public understanding of science, citizen science applications, knowledge dissemination, data-informed policy-making and the teaching of anthropogenic hazards related to georesource exploitation. TCS AH is one of 10 thematic core services forming EPOS, a solid earth science European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) (www.epos-ip.org).

Surface rotational ground‐motion records that were collected by a network of deep mining exploration monitoring in the Polish region of the Upper Silesian Coal basin are reported. A set of 51 rotation records acquired during the first two months of the recording program is analyzed. The three strongest records are discussed in detail in this article. Thus far, the maximum measured rotation velocity has reached 0.03°/s, whereas the respective maximum rotational acceleration was equal to 2.53°/s2. Based on the maximum horizontal ground velocity of 2 cm/s, this corresponds to the modified Mercalli intensity (MMI = IV). The recorded “time history” records of ground rotations have similar durations to those of their respective translational records. However, their Fourier spectra are shifted to higher frequencies in a characteristic way, as predicted by earlier, theoretical considerations. The long‐term objective of the research program is to acquire robust surface rotation records that correspond to MMIs VI or even VII, since mine tremors with a magnitude of 4 or higher are expected to occur in this area in the near future.

The paper presents new criteria of seismic and rock burst hazard assessment in Polish hard coal mines where longwall mining system is common practice. The presented criteria are based on the results of continuous recording of seismic events and analysis of selected seismological parameters: spatial location of seismic event in relation to mining workings, seismic energy, seismic energy release per unit coal face advance, b-value of Gutenberg-Richter law, seismic energy index EI, seismic moment M₀, weighted value of peak particle velocity PPV_W. These parameters are determined in a moving daily time windows or time windows with fixed number of seismic tremors. Time changes of these parameters are then compared with mean value estimated in the analyzed area. This is the basis to indicate the zones of high seismic and rock burst hazard in specific moment in time during mining process. Additionally, the zones of high seismic and rock burst hazard are determined by utilization of passive seismic tomography method. All the calculated seismic parameters in moving time windows are used to quantify seismic and rock burst hazard by four level scales. In practice, assessment of seismic and rock burst hazard is used to make daily decision about using rock burst prevention activities and correction of further exploitation of monitored coal panel.