Natural Hazards Theme News

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...

17 September 2020

Press, Research

Experimental testing of processes controlling the structuring of major continental rifts

Assessing the seismic hazard in continental strike-slip zones (faults that are usually vertical and along which two blocks slide horizontally in relat...

24 July 2020

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a period of silence in anthropogenic seismic noise worldwide

A study published in the journal Science by a group of international seismologists, including two scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de...

10 July 2020

Press, Research

A better anticipation of tsunamis thanks to GPS satellites

In a study published on July 6th in Nature - Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (University of ...