Author: György Hetényi

The M6.2 Norcia (Italy) earthquake that occurred on August 24th has received quite a bit of media attention. You can find local reports and photos, risk analyses and many related news on nearly all platforms. The day after the event RTS has called György Hetényi for a short interview about progress in earthquake “forecasting” – you can listen to it here.

The CPPS (“Centre Pédagogique pour la Prévention des Séismes”) is a newly developed educational centre to learn about earthquakes, seismic hazard and related topics, hosted by the HES-SO in Sion. It will be open to the public in the Autumn, and during the preparation phase we (a group of 13 colleagues from UNIL-ISTE) had the opportunity to visit and test the exhibit, including the earthquake simulator! It was a great experience. For more details on the CPPS: http://www.cpps-vs.ch/fr-fr/

Photo from the CPPS website

Congratulations to Leonardo Colavitti who was awarded the “Irene Galante” prize by the University of Trieste for his master thesis! This prize is awarded to students who have carried out their research at the Department of Mathematics and Geosciences. The thesis title is “Tomografia crostale delle Alpi Sud-Orientali: dalla localizzazione sismica al modello Geologico-Strutturale”, supervised by Drs. Costa, Tiberi and Böhm.

For the Summer months Djordje Grujic from Dalhousie University (Canada) will be with our group as a visiting professor. He will work on the Eastern Himalayas and also on Alpine tectonics. His stay is funded by the International Short Visit program of SNF.

At the latest Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet workshop the following future venues have been agreed on:

• 2017: China
• 2018: Switzerland
• 2019: USA (Montana)

We are delighted to host the conference in Switzerland again!

More details and a dedicated website will come in due time.

On May 2^nd György Hetényi will give the ISTE institute seminar at 17:15 in Géopolis room 1620:

Himalayan geodynamics: lessons from the past 20 years and challenges for the next 20

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