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A seminar on the mechanisms through which the African and European tectonic plates interact not far from the Maltese islands, and the implications for potential large earthquakes in the region, is the subject of a seminar to be held on Wednesday at 1pm by the Department of Geosciences of the University of Malta’s Faculty of Science. The speaker is Marc André Gutscher from the University of Western Brittany, Plouzané, France, who has conducted extensive research on major earthquakes and tsunamis, geodynamics and subduction tectonics in the Mediterranean and elsewhere in the world. The seminar, entitled ‘Active tectonics of the East Sicily margin and Calabria subduction: results of recent marine geophy­sical cruises and upcoming studies’, will be held in Room 401, Mathe­matics and Physics Building, Msida campus. Attendance is free.