News Archive

News-bulletins relating to local earthquakes and seismically recorded events are normally published on www.jordskjelv.no (in Norwegian).

NORSAR Annual report 2010

NORSAR annual report for 2010 is available for download.

Cooperation with the Pakistan Meteorological Department

NORSAR has started Phase 2 of a scientific cooperation with the Pakistan Meteorological Department which will focus on earthquake and tsunami risk.

NORSAR cooperation with Kyrgyzstan

NORSAR cooperation with Kyrgyzstan and neighboring countries on earthquake hazard and risk
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NORSAR cooperates with the Institute of Geophysical Research in Kazakhstan

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs supports a three-year program with Kazakhstan for establishment of training facilities and research cooperation.
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Eurocode 8 seminar

Eurocode 8 deals with the design of civil engineering structures for earthquake resistance.
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SeisRoX plug-in for Petrel

NORSAR and NORSAR Innovation are pleased to announce the release of our new innovative Petrel plug-in - Synthetic 3D Seismic.
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Annual Report 2009

NORSAR annual report for 2009 is available for download.
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Results from research on verification of nuclear disarmament presented in New York

NORSAR has participated in the United Kingdom-Norway Initiative on research into the Verification of Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement.
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Arctic seismology session at ESC 2010

NORSAR and the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Warsaw co-organise a session on the seismicity and structure of the European Arctic at the ESC 2010.
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Eurocode 8 seminar

Eurocode 8 deals with the design of civil engineering structures for earthquake resistance.
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Why Haiti, and what now?

Why the Haiti earthquake happened, why it could not be predicted and why it became so disastrous.
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Haiti: Forebyggende tiltak

Opprop om midler til forebyggende tiltak mot jordskjelvkatastrofer.
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Deep Geothermal Energy - A giant source of green energy

NORSAR is member of a Norwegian consortium to promote R&D of geothermal energy.
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NORSAR participates in monitoring of the ice sheet of Greenland

Together with institutions in seven other countries, NORSAR takes part in a coordinated effort to monitor glacial earthquakes in Greenland.
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AGU Fall 2009 microearthquake session

NORSAR organizes session on microearthquakes at this years AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco.
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Announced Nuclear Test by North Korea

On 25 May 2009 01.04.24 GMT, the NORSAR observatory recorded seismic signals from a presumed underground nuclear test in North Korea.
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NORSAR participates in project on verification of nuclear disarmament

NORSAR is participating, together with other institutions in Norway and partners in the UK, in a unique exercise on verification of nuclear disarmament.
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Annual Report 2008

NORSAR annual report for 2008 is available for download.
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New book on the CTBT with author from NORSAR

Svein Mykkeltveit has co-authored a book recently published by Springer, entitled 'Nuclear Test Ban - Converting Political Visions to Reality'.
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