OVPF-IPGP News

29 October 2018

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

Piton de la Fournaise's ten-year eruptive cycles linked to the fertility of its mantle source

Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion Island) is one of the most active volcanoes on the planet. However, it has alternating periods of intense activity (12 ...

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...