Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere Team News

09 October 2019

Press, Research

Towards a better understanding of mega-earthquake triggering mechanisms

In a recently published study, IPGP researchers and their colleague show that fluid pressure variations in subduction zones control, over the long ter...

31 July 2019

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Raphaël Grandin, Gauthier Hulot and Robin Lacassin recognized by AGU

Two IPGP researchers have been rewarded by their peers for their outstanding work in the field of Earth and planetary sciences, and another for his si...

15 May 2018

General public, Press, Research

The crustal structure and kinematics of the Central Andes revisited

Since the advent of plate tectonics, a distinction has been made between mountain ranges formed by the collision of continental blocks, the typical ex...

28 April 2018

Press, Research

Earthquake deficit and seismic hazard along the Levant Fault

Researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, in collaboration with scientists from Jordan's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources a...

21 February 2018

General public, Press, Research

Seismic ruptures and slow earthquakes in subduction zones

In a study recently published in the journal Science Advances, a team of French and Ecuadorian researchers have highlighted the relationships between ...

09 January 2017

Research

Ecuador subduction " supercyclic " behavior highlighted after the Pedernales earthquake of April 16th, 2016

The Pedernales earthquake (magnitude 7.8) violently struck Ecuador's central coast on April 16, 2016, causing nearly 700 casualties and more than 16,0...

06 December 2016

Press, Research

IPGP post-seismic interventions in Italy following the Amatrice and Norcia earthquakes

On October 30th, 2016, central Italy was shaken by a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Norcia region, a few kilometers north of the epicenter of the mag...

10 February 2016

General public, Press, Research

Seismotectonic context of southern Haiti: a new model for the magnitude Mw7.0 earthquake of January 12th, 2010

Despite the magnitude of the deadly earthquake of January 12th, 2010, the seismotectonic context and active faults in the epicentral zone were still p...

17 December 2015

Research

Reconstructing past landscapes to understand the hunting techniques of primitive man

Using ancient landform modeling techniques developed at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (CNRS, Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité), an inte...