Supercomputers help geophysicists

There are fields of geophysics, that rely on numerical modeling or the analysis of huge datasets. With the help of supercomputing, we are able to model complex systems or make sense of large and complicated datasets. IT4Innovations (IT4I) is a Czech national...

Comment on Taitung earthquakes – Taiwan

Two large earthquakes occurred on the island of Taiwan on Saturday and Sunday (September 17; 14:41 Czech time and September 18; 07:44 Czech time), reaching magnitudes of 6.5 and 6.9. Both events (referred to as the Taitung earthquakes) were observed in the southeast...

6th Annual AlpArray Scientific Meeting, Prague 2022

From the 12th-14th of October 2022, the 6th Annual AlpArray Scientific Meeting will be held in Prague. Jana Plomerová and her colleagues from GFÚ co-organize the event, that will bring together geoscientists from the 17 member states and 64 institutions making up the...

Comment on Papua New Guinea earthquake

On Sunday morning, September 11, at 01:47 Czech time (23:47 on September 10 UTC), a large earthquake of magnitude 7.6 occurred in the east of Papua New Guinea, at a depth of 90-100 km. While most large earthquakes around the world happen directly on the...

Joint seminar on Friday, September 16

On Friday, 16th September, Surface Processes & Palaeoclimate team organizes a joint seminar with the “Earth Surface Processes Modelling” group from GFZ Potsdam (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). Where: GFÚ Lecture Hall For details,...