The field season of the DIAS led HERSK project started last week when Icelandic Met Office engineers transported seismic gear with skidoos onto Hekla volcano. The HEkla Real-time Seimic networK project is funded by the GSI shortcall program and led by Martin Möllhoff at DIAS.

The DIAS geophysics team along with their colleagues successfully deployed the seismic network in this unique, natural laboratory in the Galapagos.

This inflation has critically stressed the rocks in the volcano, such that small local earthquakes are being triggered by the tiny ground shaking from large distant earthquakes in the surrounding Pacific ‘ring of fire’.

Recent ascent of magma to shallow levels in the volcano has caused more than one metre of uplift of the volcano’s surface and thousands of small earthquakes.

The fundamental aim of this international collaboration is to improve our understanding of how earthquakes can trigger one another by studying the seismicity at Sierra Negra.

Geophysicists from DIAS have recently assisted the University of Edinburgh & the Instituto Geofisico at the Escuela Politecnica Nacional (IGEPN), deploy a network of seismometers at Sierra Negra, a large basaltic volcano in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Prof. Chris Bean describing the new Ocean Bottom Seismometers at the iMARL launch to @k_verbruggen of @GeolSurvIE @SeanKyneTD and Mark Ferguson of @scienceirel

DIAS took delivery of 18 ocean bottom seismometers this morning as part of the iMARL project funded by @scienceirel and support from @GeolSurvIE #deepoceanlistening

The seismic event in Wales this afternoon was recorded on our national seismic network. @GeolSurvIE insn.ie/2018-02-17-m4-…

Tonight!!! Learn about the past & present of live earthquake monitoring @dias_geophysics #ScienceWeek bit.ly/2hzGU3z

Dr. Duygu Kiyan from @dias_geophysics presents research on #tellus airborne EM data. #TellusHalfWay

@k_verbruggen of the GSI opens the TELLUS stakeholder event #TellusHalfWay

What's the weather like on exoplanets? bit.ly/2xMF4Go Find out tomorrow at #DIASDublin talk @ucddublin bit.ly/2eGn1JH

Congrats to Dr. Eva Eibl who came 2nd at the 'Falling Walls' competition at TCD tonight. Her talk was on volcano eruption forecasting

Still plenty of time to meet us! Hear all about our work on earthquakes and volcanoes!

Congratulations to Prof. Sergei Lebedev on his successful grant application ow.ly/8e6o30fk5po

We're ready! Pop into 5 Merrion Sq to learn about earthquakes/volcanoes. Science is culture! @CultureNight #DIASDublin #culturenight

Our programme for Culture Night! dias.ie/2017/09/19/fri…