The deadline for the EGU 2015 Imaggeo Photo Competition is fast approaching! If you are pre-registered for the 2015 General Assembly (Vienna, 12 -17 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition! Winners receive a free registration to next year’s General Assembly! But hurry, there are only a few days left to enter! How to participate: You will need to register on Imaggeo to upload your ...[Read More]
GPlates short course @ EGU – Make your own plate-tectonic reconstructions
A dedicated short course on the use of the software GPlates will be held at this years’ EGU. GPlates is a “desktop software for the interactive visualisation of plate-tectonics“. It offers a “combination of interactive plate-tectonic reconstructions, geographic information system functionality and raster data visualisation“. GPlates is an open-source software running ...[Read More]
ECGS & ESC/EAEE Joint Workshop: Earthquake and Induced Multi-Risk Early Warning and Rapid Response
A joint workshop about earthquake and induced risk, early warning and rapid response is going to take place in Luxembourg, between the 18th and the 20th of November this year. The long list of researchers involved in the scientific committee, invited lecturers, and, the number of organisations supporting this workshop make this meeting one not to be missed. The supporting organisations are the Eur ...[Read More]
Visual simulations of seismic waves
Sometimes it is not easy to understand (or explain) how seismic waves propagate through Earth. Recently, a number of very nice graphic examples have been uploaded on vimeo.com. The videos show the basic concepts of a travelling seismic wave such as the propagation of waves from a central source (similar to the ripples in a pond after a stone has been dropped in). The other animations show more com ...[Read More]