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Afghanistan earthquake
A destructive earthquake occurred in southeastern Afghanistan at 01:25 am local time on Wednesday morning (22/06/22; local time in the Czech Republic at 22:55 on Tuesday evening 21/06/22). The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.1 and was located in the mountainous border...
Magmatic systems at Mount Erebus Antarctica
Antarctica has long drawn explorers and scientists to investigate the icy continent from the heroic feats of the first expeditions by James Ross, Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton to the far more comfortable efforts by the scientists of today....
Thursday talks: Armin Dielforder on June 9
Our institute hosts the last of Spring 2022 guest seminars, a talk by Armin Dielforder (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany): Conditions for aftershock seismicity after great Tohoku subduction earthquake. The seminar starts at 3 PM on Thursday, June 9. All the...
Thursday talks: Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserová on June 2
Our institute hosts another invited lecture, by Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserová (The Agricultural University of Iceland | LBHI, Iceland): "High latitude dust in Iceland and its impact" at 15:00 on Thursday, June 2. Pavla's research has been frequently covered by Czech...