Imperial Centre for Geohazards
Studying Geohazards from Cause to Consequence
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Investigating the recent eruptive history of Popocatepetl using geological field work and geochemical and petrological analyses (NERC funded research by C. Petrone, J. Prytulak and PhD student M. Mangler)
Seismic reflection images allow ancient volcanoes and magma plumbing systems to be analysed in three-dimensions, constraining how their construction influences volcanic hazards (research by C. Magee – Junior Research Fellow in ESE)
Seismic imaging of subduction plate boundary faults using advanced waveform inversion methods is used to study how extinct undersea volcanoes squashed under Earth's crust may cause tsunami quakes (Rebecca Bell and Joanna Morgan, ESE)
Advanced image analysis methods developed by Jianguo Liu and coworkers (ESE) applied to satellite data allow retrieving near fault deformation from the M7.9 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in unprecedented detail.
The state-of-the-art modeling platform developed in the AMCG by Matthew Piggott and coworkers allows scenario modeling of potential tsunami, in this case for a case based on the gigantic historic underwater Storegga slide that left tsunami deposits in Scotland.
Our Centre brings together Imperial and Natural History Museum researchers working on a wide range of natural hazards, including: earthquakes, volcanism, landslides, tsunami, and impacts.
Our research ranges from improving understanding of the source mechanisms to assessing hazard and risk, to mitigation of the consequences.
We develop and use state-of-the-art numerical modelling techniques as well as using advanced geological, geophysical, remote sensing and geochemical data collection and analysis techniques.
Find out who we are, what exciting research we do, and how you could join us.