News

11 October 2023

Institute Life

Tribute to Lev Vinnik

Lev Pavlovich Vinnik, an outstanding geophysicist and world-famous seismologist , and one of the leading members of the Institute of Physics of the E...

02 October 2023

General public, Observatories, Press

Montagne Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique listed as UNESCO World Heritage site

Following the announcement on 20 September that Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique had been declared a UNESCO ...

02 October 2023

Press, Research

First high-resolution images of the last stage of magma plumbing

By imaging for the first time at high resolution and in 3D the magmatic system under the East Pacific Ridge, an international team led by Milena Marja...

28 September 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Kristel Chanard receives the AGU's John Wahr Early Career Award

Kristel Chanard, an IGN geophysicist in the IPGP geodesy team, is the 2023 recipient of the John Wahr Early Career Award presented by the American Geo...

25 September 2023

Press, Research

The evolution of the Earth's atmosphere studied using impact craters

An international team shows that rocks from the hydrothermal system formed following the impact of the Rochechouart asteroid around 200 million years ...

18 September 2023

Events, General public, Observatories, Press

"Fête de la science" 2023 at the national magnetic observatory in Chambon-la-Forêt

Why does magnetic North move? What happens when the Sun triggers a magnetic storm? Discover the Earth's magnetic field on 6 and 7 October 2023!

13 September 2023

General public, Institute Life, Press, Research

"Institut de physique du globe de Paris : 100 Years of Science for the Planet" is now available in bookshops!

The book, published by La Martinière to commemorate the IPGP's centenary, was co-written by the institute's scientists. It retraces the rich history o...

05 September 2023

Press, Research

The Earth's mantle as revealed by plume geochemistry

In a review article, an international team, including researchers from the IPGP, presents a review of present knowledge of the deep dynamics of the Ea...

05 September 2023

Press, Research

2000 years of seismicity on the San Andreas fault segment modulated by the level of the Salton Sea

Using a technique traditionally used in civil engineering, two seismologists, including Yann Klinger, a researcher at the Institut de Physique du Glob...

04 September 2023

General public, Observatories, Press

End of the eruption at Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island

The eruption began on 2 July 2023, at around 8:30 am local time and stopped on 10 August 2023, at around 5 am local time (01:00 am UTC), after a phase...

04 August 2023

Education, Institute Life

Welcome to the IPGP ! Academic year 2023-2024

Find the dates, locations and all the information you need about the start of the 2023 academic year at the IPGP in the dedicated page!

04 August 2023

Research

Seismic laws and fractal surfaces

In a recent work, scientists relate the statistical properties of earthquakes (magnitude, frequency, etc.) to those of correlated long-range fractal r...