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IPOC goes youtube
20.06.2011
The Deutsche Welle TV produced a TV feature about IPOC that you can watch on youtube!
IPOC and Maule earthquake workshop
20.06.2011
Workshop on IPOC and the M8.8 2010 Maule workshop on 24.6.2011 at GFZ.
MINAS - 3 new mini arrays installed
16.05.2011

Three new 10 element small aperture arrays were installed in April 2011!

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seismogram of the day
16.02.2011

 

IPOC station PB06

PB12 installed
16.02.2011

New station PB12 installed on a military compound south of Arica on Cerro Caramaca.

 

pb12_construction

 

A hydraulic excavator had to dig for four days get the vault into the ground. The station is currently equipped with broadband and strong-motion seismometers. It will be hooked up to the Arica airport with a freewave link.

IPOC Seminar
16.02.2011

Next IPOC Seminar on 24.3.2011 in Potsdam.

Speakers will be Dirk Brändlein (Magnetotellurics) and Manoochehr Shirzaei (InSAR time series analysis).

IPOC equipment
15.03.2010

Prof. Dr. Hüttl, director of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, is handing over parts of IPOC to Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile.


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M8.8 Chile earthquake
02.03.2010

IPG Paris and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences dispatch research teams to remeasure GPS monuments and set up a portable seismographs network to measure aftershocks following the large Maule M8.8 Chile earthquake.

PB13 goes online
20.01.2010

Seismic observatory PB13 on Cerro Chaquipina goes online. Now the station not only hosts the possibly highest STS2 on Earth (4800m) but also the possibly longest radio Freewave data link (80 km).