Natural Hazards Theme News

10 February 2022

Awards and Distinctions, Observatories, Press, Research

WebObs software wins MESRI's first Open Science prize for open source software

The WebObs tool designed by the IPGP's volcanological and seismological observatories has been awarded an Open Science prize for free research softwar...

27 January 2022

Press, Research

Volcano Hunga Tonga, an unusual eruption

On January 15th, 2022, the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in the Tonga archipelago in the Pacific Ocean created a volcanic plume several tens of ...

22 October 2021

Press, Research

The mechanics of earthquakes studied using high-resolution satellite images

Using very high-resolution satellite images, taken before and after the ruptures of a sequence of earthquakes in the California desert, a study led by...

01 September 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Birth of Mayotte's undersea volcano: the largest undersea eruption ever documented

A study published on August 26th, 2021 in Nature Geoscience looks back at the discovery of a new submarine volcanic edifice off Mayotte in May 2019 du...

30 June 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Successful installation of the first connected underwater observatory in Guadeloupe

By recording its first earthquake on Sunday, June 20th, 2021, two days after its installation was completed, the new optical underwater observatory in...

02 June 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Never-before-seen images of Mayotte's underwater volcano

In parallel with the monitoring campaigns led by Revosima, Geoflamme, the first campaign dedicated to scientific research on the undersea volcano off ...

16 March 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

REVOSIMA: a new automatic earthquake detection method

Since March 1st, 2021, Mayotte's volcanological and seismological monitoring network (REVOSIMA) has been using a new method for automatically detectin...

10 December 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Surveillance in times of crisis

Two scientific publications have just appeared in Seismological Research Letters, confirming the ability of IPGP's observatories to deal with the majo...

04 December 2020

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

OVSM-IPGP recommends Mount Pelée to be placed under yellow volcanic watch

On Thursday December 3rd, the Martinique Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of the IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS) sent ...

29 October 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

First assessment of the Mayobs15 campaign to monitor the activity of the Mayotte volcano

In order to better understand and observe the seismo-volcanic phenomenon that has been affecting Mayotte since May 2018, a new oceanographic campaign ...

15 October 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Real-time imaging of a volcano's internal plumbing to better anticipate eruptions

Researchers at IPGP and their international colleagues have developed a new operational method for monitoring volcanoes: using GPS measurements to tra...

13 October 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

New campaign at sea to monitor the evolution of the Mayotte volcano

The MAYOBS15 mission, which will take place on board the Marion Dufresne from October 1 to 26, 2020, aims to maintain instruments and monitor seismo-v...