4 Jan 2021 | Newsletters, Research
Optical fiber is a fascinating concept that turns a silica thread the size of a hair into a light guide over very long distances, propagating information at the speed of light. This invention, which dates back to the 1960s, has revolutionized the way we communicate....
18 Dec 2020 | Newsletters, Resif life
If the oceans are at the heart of climate change and biodiversity issues, they are also the seat of essential telluric processes in the internal dynamics of our planet. They are also the source of telluric hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides) impacting the...
17 Dec 2020 | Newsletters
In this Newsletter you will find : Impact of Storm Alex in the upper Nice country measured by Résif seismological stations Focus : The influence of source- and ground-motion model choices on probabilistic seismic hazard levels at 6 sites in France Focus : Project RAP...
16 Dec 2020 | Newsletters, Research
One year ago, the Teil earthquake of November 11, 2019, of magnitude Mw 4.9, shook the Ardèche and heavily damaged the epicentral region with an intensity EMS98 estimated at VIII, causing very large damage estimated at several tens of millions of euros. After the...
11 Dec 2020 | Engineering and instrumentation, Newsletters
The national park of land mobile seismological instruments (SisMob) is hosted and managed at Osug/ISTerre (Grenoble) within the Service Instrumentations Géophysiques (Sig). It has 120 stations of broadband (LB) or medium-band (MB) type. Since 2017, the park has been...
9 Dec 2020 | Engineering and instrumentation, Newsletters
AlpArray is a consortium of research projects from about ten European countries that aims to specify the deep structures of the Alps (crust and upper mantle) to better understand the dynamics of the chain. AlpArray is based on the deployment of a dense and homogeneous...
