Institute of Geophysics of the CAS, v. v. i.

WEBNET - seismic network in the West Bohemia, monitoring of local seismic activity

You can visit freely accessible geopark in our institute

Krýsuvík, Iceland. Area with numerous earthquake swarms similar to swarms in West Bohemia

Seismic stations are usually installed in old buildings like churches due to solid basement of such objects

Our researchers work all around the world (Prokop Závada explores granitic body in California, USA)

Our institute is regularly participating in popularization activities for public. Visit "Earth Day" or "Week of Science and Technology" to see interesting experiments!

Researchers of the Institute work in interesting geological localities

News

02.11.2016

The Board of the large infrastucture CzechGeo/EPOS invites you to Workshop CzechGeo/EPOS help on Wednesday 16th November, 2016 in meeting room of Institute of Geophysics CAS,Boční II/1401, Praha 4 - Spořilov

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31.01.2016

Anisotropy and Dynamics of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System will be organized by the Geophysical Inst. (J. Plomerova), the Yale University, New Haven, USA (S-I. Karato) and the Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (J. C. Afonso) in Hotel Globus, Prague, Czech Republic on May 22-25, 2016). Abstract deadline: April 30, 2016. Early indication of your interest to participate will be appreciated.

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15.01.2016

Institute of Geology of CAS will contribute to the international scientific and artistic project on landscape. The main exhibition will take place in the Školská 28 Gallery, Prague, on 2nd February to 4th March 2015. The works by Czech, Norwegian and Icelandic artists will reflect the landscapes of several European countries, for more details see link.

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20.09.2015

EPOS IP (European Plate Observing System - Implementation Phase) Project started on 1 October 2015. Institute of Geophysics is Lead partner of WP13 Geomagnetic Observations and participates in WP14 Anthropogenic Hazard. The Project is supported by Horizon2020 grant no. 676564 and its duration is 4 years.

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12.03.2015

Prokop Závada, a reseracher of the Insitute of Geophysics of CAS, led the scientific team, which investigated the legendary american mountain Devils Tower. This landmark is a sacred place for many Native American tribes and played a major role in the movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'. A new hypothesis that explains the geological origin of this mountain attracted interest not only of the scientific community, but also journalists. A report about this new hypothesis is now introduced in Scientific American magazine.

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