The International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) and the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI) held their IAGA-IASPEI Joint Scientific Assembly 2025, hosted by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL) in Lisbon, Portugal, from 31 August to 5 September 2025. At the end of the Assembly, the IASPEI participants endorsed the following IASPEI resolution:
Resolution 3
RESOLUTION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMISSION FOR RAPID INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATION OF SIGNIFICANT EARTHQUAKES
RECOGNISING the devastating impacts of significant earthquakes worldwide, such as the 03 Türkiye-Syria earthquakes that resulted in nearly 60,000 fatalities, and other recent deadly events;
ACKNOWLEDGING the critical importance of rapid, coordinated, and interdisciplinary scientific response in the immediate aftermath of major earthquakes to capture perishable data and transient phenomena essential for understanding rupture dynamics, fault properties, and secondary hazards;
IASPEI Proposes to establish the IASPEI Commission on the Rapid Interdisciplinary Investigation of Significant Earthquakes (RI2SE) as a platform to integrate expertise from earthquake and engineering seismology, geodesy, geology, geo-electromagnetics, geochemistry, hydrology, and social sciences.
--From IASPEI newsletter