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15 March 2018
Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research
Jérôme Gaillardet silver medal and Sébastien de Raucourt CNRS crystal medal 2018
On March 15th 2018, the CNRS awarded its Talents 2018. The silver, bronze and crystal medals are awarded each year to researchers, engineers, technici...

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...

23 October 2017
General public, Observatories, Press, Research
IPGP's final tests on the seismic sensors of the SEIS Martian seismometer on the InSight mission
On October 5th, 2017, the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) reached another key milestone for the InSight mission, delivering the spare mo...

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...