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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 contact...
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, please contact: Greg...
AdriaArray: Installation of broadband stations
The LITHOS team installed eighteen broadband stations from the MOBNET pool of the IG CAS in Romania and Bulgaria in June 2022, within the framework of the AdriaArray, a new European geophysical initiative. The AdriaArray will cover the entire Adriatic plate in...