Seismology

Art, science, and seismic memory

EGU Seismology ECS Team and EGU Guest blogger March 30, 2026

Main wall of the Seismic Inheritance exhibition.

The contribution from Sergio León-Ríos, Associate Researcher at the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC) at the University of Chile, where he does seismology research. Introduction Earthquakes and tsunamis are not only purely scientific geophysical phenomena. They are also deeply embedded in social memory, cultural narratives, and everyday life – especially in countries like Chile, where ...[Read More]

Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

EGU Guest blogger July 15, 2025

Figure 4: The ProAc Revolution. Empowering personal (dark blue) and academic (light pink) feedback loops maintained by continuous ProAc adjustments. Graphic from Crameri (2023).

The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. Welcome to the slightly neurotic world of academic evaluation—where current incentives often pull us away from the values we hold as scientists: curiosity, creativity, responsibility, and even actual sc ...[Read More]

Seismology Job & Career Portal

EGU Seismology ECS Team and Adam Ciesielski June 30, 2025

On this page, we regularly update open positions, workshops, schools or internships in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Would you like to advertise your workshop? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. We invite you to explore previous job posts, since some offers listed there may be ...[Read More]

What Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) can find in the Atlantic Ocean

EGU Seismology ECS Team and David June 18, 2025

Fig. 1: Map of the Madeira archipelago, showing locations of the cable and permanent seismic stations. Red line: approximate location of the GeoLab fibre. Blue triangles: permanent broadband seismic stations. White triangles: permanent short-period seismic stations. Yellow star: local earthquake recorded during the data acquisition period. Topography and bathymetry source: GEBCO Compilation Group (2023).

The contribution from David Schlaphorst, the member of ECS SM division team. David is a PostDoc in Dom Luiz Institute (IDL), University of Lisbon, where he does seismology research. Introduction Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has been used exponentially over the last decade.If you are eager to learn the basics but in song form try this link. In this blog post, we want to dive into one example ...[Read More]