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Dr. Torsten Sachs, head of the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group TEAM, assumes an Assistant Professorship for Atmospheric Physics in a joint appointment of the Technische Universität Braunschweig and GFZ starting 1 January 2016.

A very shallow seismic event was detected this morning in North Korea near Punggye Ri. The automatic GEOFON notification system at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences has calculated and notified a few minutes after the origin time at…

Traces of volcanic ash originating from icelandic volcanoes have been found in the sediments of Lake Tiefer See in the Nossentiner-Schwinzer Heide natural park in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This allows to more precisely date climate changes of the last…

22.12.2015: This year's El Niño phenomenon is extraordinarily strong. Not every Christmas Child receives a warm welcome: the fishermen of Peru have to fight with the climate phenomenon El Niño, where warm surface water of the Pacific displaces the…

18.12.2015: From 30 November to 3 December the Kick-off Meeting for the EU project IMPREX took place in De Bilt, Netherlands. IMPREX „IMproving PRedictions and management of hydrological EXtremes“ aims to improve society’s ability to anticipate and…

16.12.2015: Catastrophic medieval earthquakes in Nepal. Pokhara, the second largest town of Nepal, has been built on massive debris deposits, which are associated with strong medieval earthquakes. Three medieval earthquakes, in 1100, 1255, and 1344,…

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