The 2016 NDC Workshop is being organized by the Provisional Technical Secretariat (PTS) of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in cooperation with DIAS and the Government of Ireland.

It will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from 9 to 13 May 2016.

The workshop will be attended by more than 60 international experts from around the world who are currently involved in developing improved systems for the detection and analysis of nuclear test experiments throughout the world.

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A major M7.8 earthquake occurred near the coast of Ecuador on 16th April 2016 at 23:58 UTC (18:58 local time).

DATE : 16 April 2016
ORIGIN TIME : 23:58 37s UTC
LAT/LONG : 0.371° North / 79.940° West
DEPTH : 19.2 km
MAGNITUDE : 7.8 Mw
LOCALITY : North-west coastal area of Ecuador, approximately 175km WNW of Quito.

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A major M7.0 earthquake occurred on the island of Kyushu, Japan on 15th April 2016 at 16:25 UTC (01:25 on 16th April local time). A number of aftershocks have been recorded. A tsunami alert was issued for Japanese costal areas.

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The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), with the support of an interdisciplinary grant from the Irish Research Council (WEXD – When Experts Disagree), will hold a specialist workshop from Tuesday 12th to Thursday 14th April 2016 examining some disputed areas of high-energy astrophysics.

Admission is free but advance booking is required here.

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Staff from DIAS Geophysics developed and delivered an intensive, one-week, course recently on ‘Applied Geophysics’. The course was delivered to final year geology students of UCD and TCD. The course took place in Dunsink Observatory.

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Incredibly high energy particles bombarding Earth are likely to be coming from a supermassive black hole located near the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, new research by an Irish based scientist and his colleagues has concluded.

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Scientists from the DIAS Geophysics section will attend the 59th Irish Geological Research meeting in Galway this weekend. They will present their research in such areas as: theoretical geophysics, geothermal research in Ireland and abroad, marine seismic research and more. Details can be viewed in the attached programme.

DIAS is a partner in Japan’s ASTRO-H space mission. The spacecraft was launched successfully from Tanegashima by the Japanese Space Agency JAXA at 8:45 am (GMT) Wednesday morning 17th February. The launch can be viewed here.

Copyright : JAXA

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Senior Professor Chris Bean, Head of the Geophysics Section in the School of Cosmic Physics, has been awarded a Science Foundation Ireland Research Infrastructure Award.

Photo l-r: Minister for Research, Innovation and Skills, Damien English, TD , Prof. Chris Bean, DIAS and Prof. Mark Ferguson, Director General Science Foundation Ireland and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland.

The project is entitled “Insitu Marine Laboratory for Geosystems Research” (iMARL) and it will initiate the development of the first permanent sea-floor seismic, tsunami and marine acoustic observatory in the Irish NE Atlantic. (more…)