QuakeHack 2025

During the week, participants were divided into four groups of 3-6 people, working on various topics:

• On the variability of slow slip events around the world
• What’s up with FMDs:​ Is GR good enough?​
• Can geophysical external page datasets enhance our earthquake forecasts?​
• Wave-to-wave: Catalog-free earthquake forecasting
  

To close the week, final presentations were given on Friday at ETH Zurich in front of QuakeHack participants, a jury of four experts and an audience of reserachers and employees of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) and Institute for Geophysics at ETH Zürich. We are proud of all our participants for collaborating within and outside their groups and see everyone as winners.

'Wave-to-wave' group were declared winners of the first QuakeHack based on their innovative project idea. We thank Raspberry shake for the donation of one of their amazing devices as the prize to the winning team! 

The geological excursion was led by Dr. Eric Reusser and preceded by a lecture on the geology of the area. We visited Soglio and Bondo, and saw the traces left by the large landslide that occurred there in 2017.

The week was an absolute success and we received overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants, along with some constructive suggestions for potential future installments. A massive thank-you goes out to all the participants, everyone who supported us along the way: Stefan Wiemer, Sabine Brühwiler, Men-Andrin Meier, Warner Marzocchi, Eric Reusser, Tania Toledo, Fred Massin, Laura Gulia, and our sponsors: the Swiss Seismological Service (SED), the Seismological Society of America (SSA), International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Fondazione Garbald, and Raspberry Shake.