DIAS Geophysics Scholar wins 2013 Student Author Award Andrew Schaeffer of the Geophysics Section (School of Cosmic Physics) has won the 2013 Student Author Award of the Geophysical Journal International. The award has been established to recognise the… Read More

Earthquake in Pakistan 24-9-2013 A major M7.7 earthquake occurred in the Balochistan region of Pakistan on 24th September at 11:29 UTC (16:29 local time), 290km north of Karachi, in a mostly rural area.  The earthquake was felt in… Read More

27 November, 2013 – Seminar When: 4pm on Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 Where: DIAS Merrion Square Library Speaker: Dr. Volker Rath (Complutense University of Madrid) Title: Past climate change from borehole temperatures: perspectives on the last glacial cycle…. Read More

14 November, 2013 – Seminar When: 11am on Thursday November 14th, 2013 Where: Geophysics Library, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Speaker: Dr. Wolfram Geissler (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) Title: Geophysical studies in the Fram… Read More

14 November, 2013 – Seminar When: 4pm on Thursday November 14th, 2013 Where: DIAS 10 Burlington Road Speaker: Dr. Alan D. Chave (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA) Title: Magnetotelluric Data, Stable Distributions and Impropriety: An… Read More

Earthquake off Welsh Coast, recorded on the Irish National Seismic Network On 26th June, 2013 at 22:28:01.5 UTC an earthquake Mag ML2.8 occurred in the Irish Sea, off the Welsh Coast, location 52.893N, 4.722W and depth 12 Km. … Read More

24 June 2013 – Seminar: SEG‘s 2013  Honorary Lecturer for Europe When: 5pm on Monday, 24 June 2013 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Marion Jegen (Geomar/Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany)Title:… Read More

Earthquake off Welsh Coast, felt in Ireland On 29th May, 2013 at 03:16:27.8 UTC an earthquake Mag ML3.8 occurred in the Irish Sea, off the Welsh Coast, location 52.879N, 4.764W and depth 11 Km.  The Irish National Seismic… Read More

2 May 2013 – Seminar When: 16:00 on Thursday, 2 May 2013 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Yochai Ben Horin (National Data Center, Israel)Title: Scientific issues related to Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty… Read More

21 March 2013 – Seminar When: 4pm on Thursday, 4 April 2013 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Prof. Gideon Rosenbaum (University Queensland, Australia)Title: Subduction segmentation during slab rollback and the origin of… Read More