19-20 November 2015: OMIV meeting at ISTerre / Grenoble, France.
12-14 October 2015: Presentation of aposterdescribing the management and distribution of OMIV seismological, displacement and hydro-weather/geochemistry datasets at the RESIF Meeting / La Grande Motte, France.
03-04 September 2015: The 'Journées Aléa Gravitaire' were organized in Caen, France.JAG webpage.
10 April 2015: Landslide forces the authorities to close the Chambon tunnel and the road RD1091, which connects Grenoble (Isère, France) to Briançon (Hautes-Alpes). With alternative routes being a major detour (3 hours instead of 30 minutes from Bourg-d'Oisans to La Grave), local businesses are heavily impacted. Status on July 22nd, 2015: The road is still closed. The landslide has not collapsed despite several acceleration phases.
9 March 2015: OMIV now has aDigital Object Identifier for seismological data!! To be quoted when using OMIV seismological data in a publication.
28 February 2015:Rockfall cuts off 2 major french ski resorts and causes severe traffic problems on a busy transfer day. Same information in french.
16 February 2015:Videoof the last 20 months of activity of the Val Paghera soft rock landslide in Switzerland.
10 November 2014:SNO-OMIV presentationto Prospective INSU Meeting / Cabourg, France.
6 October 2014: One of the largest known rockslides since the settlement of Iceland occurred in Askja, Iceland, on July 21st 2014. See article by the Icelandic Meteorological Office.
1 September 2014: A study published in 2012 shows that death toll from landslides is vastly underestimated: between 2004 and 2010, landslides worldwide killed over 32000 people. Summaryhere, full paperhere.
3 April 2014: A group of 30 students and 3 professors from the Nancy "Ecole des Mines" (Geoengineering section) visited ISTerre to discuss landslide monitoring and research at ISTerre. See the day's programmehere.