Geodynamics

Happy blog birthday!

Constanza Rodriguez Piceda and Michaël Pons June 26, 2024

The blog turns 7 and we got our own ring of fire! (illustration by Lea Pennacchioni)

As we hope it’s marked in all of our beloved readers’ calendars, it’s the time of the year to celebrate the blog’s birthday! This year, the blog turns seven, and we are thrilled to share a recap of our activities over the past 12 months. We published 58 blog posts, covering topics such as the geodynamics of remarkable regions, exciting outreach initiatives, and our popular monthly column ...[Read More]

Geodynamics & Tectonics on-the-go

Constanza Rodriguez Piceda June 19, 2024

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In 2020, we found ourselves fully immersed in the world of virtual seminar series, a trend that has continued since then. By that time, the blog team made a compilation of seminar series of interest to the Geodynamics community. Four years have passed bringing both new additions and some that have become inactive. It’s now time for an update! Here is a non-exhaustive list of recorded seminar serie ...[Read More]

FEMR: An emerging “game changer” in predicting earthquakes and impending geohazards.

Shreeja Das and edited by Srivatsan Vedavyas June 12, 2024

The map of the region of Syrian-African transform with superimposed locations of significant earthquake epicenters related to the Gaziantep Earthquake of 6th Feb 2023 and its subsequent aftershocks. (image from Das et al. ,2024)

In this week’s blog, Shreeja Das, a Post Doctoral researcher at the Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Ashdod, Israel working with Dr. Vladimir Frid, discusses her research involving the use of FEMR waves and its use as a tool in predicting impending geohazards , some of her results obtained using said technique to study transform fault activity along the Dead Sea Transform fault. Earthqu ...[Read More]

Exploring the Evolution of Rift Magmatism through Numerical Modelling

Gaetano Ferrante and edited by Lorenzo Mantiloni June 5, 2024

A view of the volcanoes of Chaîne des Puys in Auvergne, France, associated to the Limagne Graben. Credit: Alpha du centaure (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alphaducentaure/11912337466/) / Wikipedia, CC BY-2.0

Continental rifts are a striking manifestation of the forces at work in the Earth’s interior and are often associated with volcanic activity. Contrary to intuition, volcanism is not confined to rift grabens, but migrates as the rifts evolve. How and why this happens is still not clear. This week, Gaetano Ferrante from Rice University, Houston (USA) will share his research with us, showing ho ...[Read More]