Natural Hazards Theme News

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...

24 November 2016

Press, Research

Detection of a gravity signal before the arrival of seismic waves

The Earth's gravitational field is not uniform over the surface of the globe, but depends on the masses (thickness and density in particular) of the v...

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...

01 January 2016

Research

Publication of the book "Les séismes des Antilles" (Earthquakes in the French West Indies)

The French West Indies are classified as France's maximum seismic risk zone. Although moderate in scale, the earthquakes in Les Saintes (2004) and Mar...