22 January 2016 – Seminar When: 15:00 on Friday, 22 January 2016 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Dr Perla Piña-Varas (Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia)Title: Vertical collapse origin of Las… Read More

On 6th January 2016 at 01:41:55 the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) recorded an unusual seismic event located in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The recordings are consistant with the announcement by the DPRK that it… Read More

19 November 2015 – Seminar When: 15:00 on Thursday, 19 November 2015 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Dr. Wolfram Geissler Title: Looking for Tristan da Cunha mantle plume by means of seismological… Read More

12 November 2015 – Seminar When: 15:00 on Thursday, 12 November 2015 Where: DIAS, Geophysics Section, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, (library) Speaker: Dr. Claudio Chiarabba (Head of the Earthquakes Department at INGV in Rome)Title: Recent cases of… Read More

On the 16th September 2015 at 22:54:32 UTC an earthquake of magnitude ML8.3 occurred on the coast of Chile, approximately 225km north of the Chilean captial Santiago, with the epicentral location 31.55S, 71.58W. Read more

On 31st July 2015 at 15:38:14 UTC an earthquake of magnitude ML 2.0 occurred in the Irish Sea, approximately 50km off the coast of Wicklow, with the epicentral location 53.01N, 5.35W.

DIAS is currently carrying out an academic research program that aims at an evaluation of geophysical imaging methods, which are needed for a better understanding the subsurface. The identification of subsurface structure and properties is important for many… Read More

On 9th July 2015 at 05:12:18 UTC, an earthquake of magnitude ML1.9 occurred in the Rockall Trough off the northwest coast of Ireland, location 56.0N, 12.2W. Read more

A space weather warning system that detects powerful solar storms has been developed by scientists at Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.  Read more  

On 29th May 2015 at 07:00:08 UTC an earthquake of magnitude Mw6.8 occurred on the Alaska Peninsula  with the epicentral location 56.74N, 153.73W. Read more.