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Earthquake in Chile - No All-Clear
04.04.2014| After the strong earthquake that struck Chile on April 2 (CEST), numerous aftershocks, some of them of a considerable magnitude, have struck the region around Iquique. Seismologists from the GFZ German…
01.04.2014: ESA’s satellite trio Swarm is going to provide comprehensive observations of the Earth’s magnetic field and gravity field, as well as in-situ measurements in the upper atmosphere. These data are mandatory for monitoring global change.…
2./3. April 2014: This Wednesday morning the Russian Vernadsky Foundation launches the „International Year 2014“ with a two day event in Potsdam. Approx. 40 Russian and German representatives from science, politics and administration have come…
Biologic processes shaping the landscape
01.04.2014| A common Geoscience paradigm holds that the Earth surface is shaped mainly by climate (eroding soil) and tectonics (building mountains). The new Priority Program EarthShape: Earth Surface Shaping…
31.03.2014: TIPTIMON, the Tien-Shan Pamir Monitoring program, holds its Midterm Science Meeting this week at the Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam, GFZ – German Research Centre for Geosciences. About 60 scientists from Germany and Central Asia will share and…
25.03.2014| Again, the PhD Day on March 27 is an opportunity for the PhD students of the GFZ Potsdam to present their current research projects to their colleagues and other guests.
Great earthquakes, water under pressure, high risk
28.03.2014| The largest earthquakes occur where oceanic plates move beneath continents. Obviously, water trapped in the boundary between both plates has a dominant influence on the earthquake rupture…
Improved Tsunami Disaster Management in the Indian Ocean
25.03.2014| Ten years after the tsunami disaster of December 2004 the training program PROTECTS (Project for Training, Education and Consulting for Tsunami Early Warning Systems) successfully…
24.03.2014| Prof. Dr. Doris Dransch, Head of Section 1.5 Geoinformatics of the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, was delegated by the German Research Foundation DFG, and the Ministry for Education and Research BMBF to the international…
Off-rift volcanoes explained
23.03.2014: Volcanoes often occur in rift valleys, within the rift itself or on the rift flanks as e.g. in East Africa. A team of scientists from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, University of Southampton…