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Talk by Christoph Grützner in the kärnten.museum, Klagenfurt, 2023-11-24

On 24 November, 2023 Christoph Grützner will give a lecture at the symposium "Kärnten bebt(e) - Neue Fragen und Aspekte zur Archäoseismologie" on "Strong earthquakes in the Alps and how to date them" at the kärnten.museum in Klagenfurt.
A small trench into a sackung in Austria
Image: Christoph Grützner

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On 24 November, 2023, the symposium "Kärnten bebt(e) - Neue Fragen und Aspekte zur Archäoseismologie" will take place at the kärnten.museumExternal link in Klagenfurt. This will open the new special exhibition at the kärnten.museum on earthquakes.

Christoph Grützner will report in his lecture "Strong earthquakes in the Alps and how to date them" about the work of the Structural Geology Group in the Alps, which was mainly - but not only - carried out in the framework of the Priority Program 2017 "Mountain Building Processes in 4DExternal link". Here, many different methods were applied to find post-glacial strong earthquakes and to determine their age.