2nd International Workshop on Swarm-like Seismicity (Les Houches, France, 1-5 June 2026)

[Yihe Huang]

Dear colleagues,

 

We are pleased to announce The 2nd International Workshop on Swarm-like Seismicity to be held at Ecole de Physique des Houches, France, 1/6/2026 - 5/6/2026.  

 

Earthquake swarms are dominantly driven by transient forcings: fluid pressurization and redistribution, aseismic slip, magma migration, slow and fast deformation transients, and injection/withdrawal of fluids in industrial operation. Seismologists and earthquake physicists still struggle to characterize and understand the mechanisms at work during such sequences. This hampers our ability to forecast accurately the subsequent spatio-temporal evolution and energy release of these sequences, which in some cases (i.e., anthropogenically stimulated swarms, and also the rare cases of swarm activity precursory to a large, destructive mainshock) is of critical importance. The scope of this workshop is to deepen our understanding of earthquake swarm physics, through observations and models.

 

The conference will be held at Ecole des Houches, not far from Chamonix and the Mont Blanc, in the French Alps, from the 1st to the 5th of June 2026.

 

Abstracts can now be submitted. Please consult the workshop website (https://swarms2.sciencesconf.org/) for further details.

 

On behalf of the scientific and organizing committees,

David Marsan