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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 ...

26 January 2018

General public, Press, Research

Find out the magnitude of earthquakes by observing the atmosphere!

A study, published in the journal Nature - Scientific Reports on January 24th 2018, and signed by Giovanni Occhipinti (from the Planetology and Space ...

12 January 2018

Observatories, Press, Research

Mudflows, Prêcheur river, Montagne Pelée, Martinique

In Martinique, a major landslide sequence began on January 2nd 2018 at the Falaise Samperre, on the western flank of Montagne Pelée, north-west of the...

08 January 2018

Press, Research

A subtle chemical tipping point governs the eruption style of rhyolitic magmas

A team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and the University of Munich have just revealed in Nature that nanoscale changes...

01 December 2017

Observatories, Press, Research

New signals preceding seismic waves: how early gravity perturbations can quantify the magnitude of strong earthquakes

Earthquakes abruptly change the balance of forces in the Earth at rupture, generating seismic waves that propagate through the Earth's crust and mantl...

13 September 2017

General public, Observatories, Press

The volcanic cone from the eruption of July 14th to August 28th, 2017 has been named "Piton Delmond"

This designation is intended to pay tribute to one of the engineers, instigators, of the French volcanological and seismological observatories, Jean C...

19 May 2017

General public, Press, Research

A large-scale geophysical campaign to study the giant volcanoes of Kamchatka in Russia

On the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east, the Kluchevskoy volcano group is part of the Kuril-Kamchatka volcanic chain. This volcanic formation ...

19 May 2017

General public, Press, Research

Deep "long-period" earthquakes: early indications of volcano activation

Studying the seismicity of a volcanic area is one of the main methods for studying and monitoring volcanic activity. Indeed, the upwelling of magma fr...

30 March 2017

General public, Press, Research

Publication of the book "Why does the Earth quake?"

Understand, fear and admire one of nature's most spectacular phenomena.

14 March 2017

Observatories, Press, Research

Subsaintes 2017 campaign - Underwater earthquake traces

From April 2nd to 24th, 2017, around 20 international scientists embarked from Pointe-à-Pitre aboard IFREMER's oceanographic vessel, Atalante, to stud...

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...