The First International Summit on Hadal Zone Exploration includes discussion groups for hadal technology, marine natural products, biological and genetic resources, and marine geophysics and biology.
A quake of 6.1 magnitude hit Indonesia's West Java area on Saturday, the country's geophysics agency BMKG said, adding that the quake has no tsunami potential.
IGY was an international program that lasted from 1957 to 1958 and was implemented to collect information and research and study geophysics and the planetary environment of Earth.
Wegener showed in great detail how such continental movements were plausible and how they worked, using evidence from a large number of sciences including geology, geophysics, paleontology, and climatology.