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1. Geodynamics and Seismic Department

2. Space and Earth Physics Department
    

Geodynamics and Seismic Department

Main Tasks:

The department's focus will be on development of predictive capabilities for earthquakes via monitoring crustal deformation, studying seismic precursors, and computational simulation of earthquake cycle aimed at understanding of solid earth system complexity. The main department's programs, in terms of the underlying physics of earthquake faulting, includes the establishment of laboratory and field studies of constitutive laws that govern the earthquake generation process, identification of key scaling parameters which characterize the generation and size of an earthquake rupture, and thereby to establish a scientific methodology for prediction of large earthquakes.

Programs:

The research items addressed in the GSD are:

• Study of foreshocks, anomalous seismic activities, seismic gaps, accelerating seismic moment release, b-parameter changes of Gutenberg-Richter relation, microearthquakes migrations, seismic velocity changes, and source parameters changes,

• Recognition and modeling of temporal-spatial seismicity patterns;

• Recognition of active faults and paleoseismological studies;

• Studying and monitoring crustal deformation via GPS / InSAR measurements and stress transferring / triggering analysis;

• Physics of earthquake nucleation and dynamics of crustal fault systems;

• The mechanics of earthquake rupture and its seismic expression.

Space and Earth Physics Department

Main Tasks:

The Space and earth physics department carries out research on the geomagnetic, geoelectromagnetic, and gravimetric precursors and analysis of the satellite data (Vis, InSAR, IR).

Programs:

• Measurement and monitoring of ground magnetic field, electrical potential field, gravitational field, geothermal field, electromagnetic signals, and specific resistivity changes.