Mustapha Meghraoui, professor of earthquake geology at Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg (ITES) of the University of Strasbourg (France) and member of Académie Algérienne des Sciences et Technologies (Algeria), has received the 2023 MedGU Prize in Earth Sciences, awarded by the Mediterranean Geosciences Union for achievement and work of lasting significance in the fields of active tectonics, palaeoseismic and archaeoseismic studies.