As far back as 1920, a unique tool helped to warn of approaching storms in the North Sea region: a seismometer in Hamburg recorded the movements of the Earth’s crust. When the spikes intensified, the alarm was sounded: it could mean a storm...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics went to the former director of the Institute of Geophysics, Prof. Dr. Klaus Hasselmann. The Institute was founded in 1970 by merging the Department of Theoretical Geophysics, which had been working on weak...

The Institute of Geophysics, in cooperation with the University of Athens, is conducting a marine seismic survey along the northern coast of the islands of Samos and Ikaria in the eastern Aegean Sea. The causes and consequences of the...