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Forthcoming events:
The 37th General Assembly of the ESC will be held in Corfu, Greece,
from 19 to 24 September 2021! Save the date!
The Young Seismologist Training Course will also take place in 2021.
The theme is Historical Earthquake Data in Seismology Practice.
The 13th General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission, originally planned be held in Sharm El-sheikh, Egypt, in 1-3 June 2020, has been postponed. Click here to find the website.
The 3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology will be held in Bucharest, Romania from 19 to 24 July 2022.
It will be a joint event of the 17th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and the 38th General Assembly of the ESC.
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Past events:
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America was held in Seattle, Washington on 23-26 April.
The joint SSA-ESC session was titled Explore the Fault2SHA paradigms across the Ponds
After the formalization of a Fault2SHA Working Group inside the European Seismological Commission (2016), some initiatives organized by the WG Executive Committee in the “Old World” (http://fault2sha.net/what/), and a fruitful session at SSA2018, for presenting new data sets and the latest integration of fault sources in SHA models in Latin Americas, this session aims at exploring differences and similarities in treating fault data in seismic hazard assessment across the Ponds (the Oceans). Descriptions of earthquake sources coming from field observations and from modelling, discussions on how to handle uncertainties in source representation for Seismic Hazard Assessment (i.e. probability of multi-fault ruptures), contributions to the identification of 3D, geometrically complex fault systems, and their incorporation in either physics-based or probabilistic seismic hazard results are welcome.
Conveners:
Laura Peruzza (OGS, Italy), Ned Field (USGS, USA), Richard Styron (GEM, USA), Alessandro Valentini (UNICH, Italy)
The 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission was held in Valletta, Malta from 2 to 7 September 2018. The final number of participants was a record 802!
The Peter Bormann Young Seismologist Training Course was successfully organized in the preceding week.
The website of the Assembly
The ESC Student Awards were presented for the second time in Malta.
In the category of oral presentations the following presentations were awarded:
Roseanne Clement: ”Using multiplets to find small signals in big data”
Lukas E. Preiswerk: ” What does ambient seismic noise tell us about glacial crevassing?”
The following posters were awarded:
Martin Bachure: ” Waveform cross-correlations – precision, limitations and consequences
Carina Haeger: ”3D density, thermal and compositional model of the Antarctic lithosphere”
In addition, Roseanne Clement won the IASPEI Early Career Award.
Representatives of the Seismological Commissions met during the General Assembly in Malta. From left: María José Jiménez, Stefano Parolai, Ina Cecić (all ESC), Paulina Amponsah (AfSC), Johannes Schweitzer (IASPEI), Marcelo Assumpção (LACSC).
More past events can be found here