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Seismology

1-PhD Scholarship in numerical modeling of the Iberian lithospheric structure and topographic evolution

Last-minute call among your students, since the deadline is June 29th at 15:00.  The full information for this position is available from the http://www.ictja.csic.es/ website Department of Structure & Dynamics of the Earth CSIC-Institute for Earth Sciences Jaume Almera Within the Framework of the research project: Modeling the Topographic Evolution of Iberia A geoscience project has been fund ...[Read More]

IASPEI-IUGG Symposium on Nepal earthquake at IUGG2015

The 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) event will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July 2015. Amongst the several sessions taking place, there is one dedicated to the recent Nepal Earthquake The following notification is taken from http://www.iugg2015prague.com/iaspei-symposia.htm IASPEI-IUGG Symposium on Nepal ea ...[Read More]

First International Conference of the Arabian Geosciences Union

The Arabian Geosciences Union announced the First International Conference of the Arabian Geosciences Union and general assembly to be held in Algiers, Algeria, February 17th and 18th, 2016. For full info is available on  Brochure: http://www.uia.org/sites/uia.org/files/misc_pdfs/other_news/FirstCircular_AIC-1_2016_Algiers.pdf Information taken from: http://www.uia.org/other-news/7436 This initiat ...[Read More]

Can cloud formations predict earthquakes?

UPDATE: 28th May 2015 A new paper on this subject has recently been published on Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. The scientists examine the 2012 M 6.0 earthquake in the Po Valley of northern Italy. From inspection of 4 years of satellite images they find numerous examples of linear-cloud formations over Italy. A simple test shows no obvious statistical relationship between the occurrenc ...[Read More]