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Lecture by Michael Warsitzka at Albertov – March 26
We invite you to a lecture New concepts of salt tectonics in rift basins - Insights from analog modeling and seismic interpretation by our colleague Michael Warsitzka, which will be held March 24, 2021 in English and online at the link:...
Moderate earthquakes in Iceland
On Wednesday 24th February at 10:05 UTC the Reykjanes Peninsula (south-west Iceland) was hit by moderate earthquake of magnitude 5.7 (according to Icelandic Met Office – IMO) accompanied by a series of hundreds to thousands weaker earthquakes. Nine earthquakes were...
The songs of fin whales open new avenue for seismic studies of the shallow oceanic crust
The songs of fin whales can be used for seismic imaging of the oceanic crust, providing scientists a novel alternative to conventional surveying, a new study published this week in Science shows. The study’s lead author is Vaclav Kuna, who worked on the project as a...
Lecture by Greg Ruetenik – February 10
On Wednesday, February 10, at 10 AM, our new colleague Greg Ruetenik will present his introductory talk entitled "Coupled interactions between surface processes, the solid Earth, and sea level" This presentation will demonstrate how numerical modelling can be used to...