With the purpose of contributing to the prevention and mitigation of the geological hazards, natural or induced by human activities, IGME keeps a line of consistent performance in the execution of studies and projects. These studies develop methodologies and investigation of geological risks and valuation of hazards, cartography of geological hazards and the characterization and modelling of the geological and geotechnical potentially damaging processes.

During the year 2001 IGME has maintained its growing international projection in the field of the geological hazards, especially in Latin America, without losing its character of national reference. In this meaning, it is necessary to point out that the Ministry of Environment has designated IGME as the National Centre of Reference of Natural Hazards, within the frame of the net EIONET of the Environment European Agency.