XL General Assembly in Istanbul, Türkiye, in 2026

XL General Assembly in Istanbul, Türkiye in 2026

  General Information

Programme    Resolutions    Website

  6th Inge-Lehmann Distinguished Award Lecture

Christine Thomas: Investigating the Earth with Unusual Seismic Arrivals
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  Keynote Lectures

Oz Yilmaz: 3D Seismic Delineation of the NAFS Shear Zone in the Western Half of Marmara Basin
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Danila Chebrov: The Kamchatka Mega-Earthquake of July 29, 2025: Event Chronology, Consequences, and Research Based on Regional Data
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Orhan Tatar (AFAD Lecture): Earthquake Research and Operational Capacity of AFAD: Integrating Seismology, Hazard Assessment and Earthquake Risk Reduction in Türkiye
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Meltem Senol Balaban: Making Cities Disaster Resilient Requires Interdisciplinary Approach

Eduardo Miranda: Directionality of Ground Motions in Strike-Slip Earthquakes

Karin Sigloch: Sharpening Our Views on the Earth’s Interior with Autonomous Seismo-Acoustic Floats in the Oceans
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Jannes Münchmeyer: How Novel Earthquake Catalogs Bridge Scales in the Observation of Subduction Margins
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Ludovic Moreau: Seismology of the Changing Sea Ice
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  Student Award Winners

Oral Presentations

Annamaria Pane: Exploring the Time-Dependency of PSHA Through ETAS Models (IASPEI Early Career Award)

Fahrettin Kuran: Testing Methodological Consistency in Seismic Source Characterization: The Impact of Spatial Windows of Declustering and Smoothing on Stochastic Earthquake Sets in Diverse Tectonic Settings

Victoria Mowbray: Assessing Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Including Fault Models in South-East France

Poster Presentations

Sina Azhideh: Multiparametric Analysis of Seismic Potential Along the North Anatolian Fault (ESC Award)

Marta Freddi: Exploring Ground-Motion Variability through Broadband Physics-Based Simulations

Junsu Oh: Toward Region-Specific Ground-Motion Simulation in South Korea: Generalized Inversion of Strong-Motion Records for Simultaneous Characterization Of Source, Path, And Site Effects

ESC-SSA Travel Grant 2024

The ESC-SSA Travel Grant 2024 was awarded to James Kirchenwitz from Miami University, USA, in order to attend the 40th ESC General Assembly and to present the work An Advanced Detection and Relocation Workflow for Characterizing Seismicity Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing in the Eagle Ford Shale Play, Texas, by J. Kirchenwitz, M. Brudzinski, K. Mazzio and M. Khalkhali.

  Peter Bormann Young Seismologists' Training Course (YSTC)

The ESC General Assembly was preceeded by the Peter Bormann Young Seismologist Training Course from 31 August to 5 September, on the theme From Earthquake Science to Engineering: State-of-the-Art Perspectives. It was co-organized with the ORFEUS Annual Workshop 2026 (3-5 September) and benefitted from generous financial and logistical support from ORFEUS and Geo-INQUIRE.