Identifying, measuring, modeling and better understanding the factors and processes that contribute to the genesis of earthquakes and characterize their properties | Coping with the risks induced by large earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides impacting our societies and environment | Developing imaging and modeling techniques for the scanning of the Earth’s interior from the upper layers to greatest depths | Studying lithospheric and crustal deformations at different time scales and better understanding their relationships with deeper processes | Developing instrumentation for measuring and modeling planetary and Earth deformations and interactions, and to test theories of fundamental physics |