Natural Hazards Theme News

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 ...

07 July 2020

Press, Research

A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia

Bathymetric and seismic data point to a new plate boundary in a fracture-riddled zone beneath the northern Indian Ocean.

03 July 2020

Press, Research

Paroxysmal volcanic eruptions predicted by temporal variations in helium isotopes

Primordial helium-3 (3He) enrichment is regularly detected in volcanic fluids, but its temporal variability and link with volcanic activity are still ...

09 June 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

First results of the Mayobs 13 mission: interview and decoding

Interview with Aline Peltier, REVOSIMA operational manager and director of OVPF (Observatoire volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise) and Jean-Christ...

04 June 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Initial assessment of MAYOBS 13 campaigns

INTERMINISTERIAL PRESS RELEASE 04/06/2020 - Successful marine campaigns to monitor seismo-volcanic phenomena off Mayotte

04 May 2020

Press, Research

Periodic coastal uplift in a subduction context

Topography in subduction zones is commonly seen as the consequence of tectonic processes occurring at the plate interface where mega-earthquakes such ...

20 April 2020

Education, General public, Press, Research

New session of IPGP's Physical Volcanology MOOC

Following the success of the 2015 and 2017 sessions of the "Physical Volcanology" MOOC, and in these times of confinement, the IPGP is offering you th...

16 April 2020

Press, Research

A new tool for eruption forecasting

With its 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, the Earth's atmosphere is a unique mixture in the Solar System - on Venus and Mars, the atmosphere is essentiall...

07 April 2020

General public, Observatories, Press

Eruption and containment at the Piton de la Fournaise volcanological observatory

Following the second eruption of the year at Piton de la Fournaise, which began on April 2 and now appears to be over, Aline Peltier, Director of the ...

27 January 2020

Press, Research

Imaging volcanic disturbances associated with major earthquakes

IPGP researchers and their colleagues have sought to better understand how the 2011 Tohoku megathrust in Japan disrupted volcanic regions, by tracking...