OVSM-IPGP News

14 December 2022

Events, General public, Observatories, Press

A connected seabed observatory to study seismicity in Les Saintes

After more than a year of operation of the new seabed seismometer installed as close as possible to the faults responsible for the seismicity of Les S...

10 February 2022

Awards and Distinctions, Observatories, Press, Research

WebObs software wins MESRI's first Open Science prize for open source software

The WebObs tool designed by the IPGP's volcanological and seismological observatories has been awarded an Open Science prize for free research softwar...

30 June 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Successful installation of the first connected underwater observatory in Guadeloupe

By recording its first earthquake on Sunday, June 20th, 2021, two days after its installation was completed, the new optical underwater observatory in...

05 May 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Underwater observatory south of Terre-de-Bas, Guadeloupe

This Tuesday, June 1st, 2021, teams working on the PREST project (led by OVSM-IPGP) will be setting up an underwater observatory, equipped with innova...

10 December 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Surveillance in times of crisis

Two scientific publications have just appeared in Seismological Research Letters, confirming the ability of IPGP's observatories to deal with the majo...

04 December 2020

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

OVSM-IPGP recommends Mount Pelée to be placed under yellow volcanic watch

On Thursday December 3rd, the Martinique Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of the IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS) sent ...

07 February 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Characterization of site conditions for the RAP-RESIF network in the French West Indies

From March 9, teams from OVSG-IPGP and OVSM-IPGP will be taking part in a geophysical campaign to characterize the sites of seismic stations in the RA...

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...

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...