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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 ...

22 January 2018

Press, Research

The impactor that struck the Earth to create the Moon was no bigger than Mars

It was in the mid-1970s that astronomers proposed the current theory of the Moon's formation: our satellite was created by a giant collision between t...

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...

14 December 2017

Awards and Distinctions, Press

Make Our Planet Great Again: Louis Derry at the IPGP!

On December 11th 2017, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, revealed the names of the first 18 winners of the "Make our planet great again"...

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...

29 November 2017

Press, Research

Percolation channels: a universal idea to explain the structure and properties of glasses, liquids and magmas

An international team of researchers, led by Charles Le Losq and Daniel Neuville of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, reveals how the struct...

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...

20 October 2017

General public, Press, Research

Mineral CO2 storage in basalts: when deep underground bacteria get involved

At a time when alternative geo-engineering solutions are multiplying to offset the excessive emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a resu...

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...

24 August 2017

Press, Research

A new autonomous sensor to continuously measure the humidity and conductivity of a porous medium

In a paper published on May 11th, 2017 in the scientific journal Sensors, a team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris presen...

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.

29 March 2017

Press, Research

Publication of the book "From glass to crystal - Nucleation, growth and demixing, from research to applications"

Glass-ceramics are materials that are increasingly used in our daily lives, despite having been known for less than a century. This book provides a th...