Team Leader: Jan Burjánek
Our research
Our research activities are mainly oriented toward multidisciplinary research of earthquake generation processes and the propagation of seismic waves. We solve current problems of theory and modelling of wave phenomena in realistic elastic or attenuative, isotropic or anisotropic media of complex structures, plus related seismic source processes of natural and induced earthquakes. The recent developments in observational seismology and computer modelling allow us to apply advanced theoretical approaches in robust geophysical models and methods applicable to earthquake risk mitigation or the oil and geothermal industry.
The group’s main research areas:
- Moment tensor inversions
- Induced seismicity
- Theory of wave propagation in complex structures
- Multiscale seismic tomography & seismotectonics
- Seismic response of local geological structures
- Earthquake hazards
- Strong motion seismology
- Laboratory seismology
- Wave propagation in opaque universe
Current projects:
- CO2 Storage Pilot in a Carbonate Reservoir (TA ČR, 2020-2024, Kolář, Šílený)
- Joint inversion for seismic moment tensors and Green’s functions (GA ČR, 2019-2021, Vavryčuk, Adamová)
- Assessment of three-dimensional site effects using ambient vibrations (GA ČR, 2020-2022, Burjánek, Labuta, Opršal)
- Seismic Waves in complex 3D structures (consortium project of the Dept. of Geophysics, Charles University, Pšenčík)
- Seismic waves in heterogeneous anisotropic viscoelastic media (GA ČR, 2020-2022, Pšenčík)
People
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Jan Burjánek | RNDr, PhD | Senior researcher (team leader) | engineering seismology |
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Petra Adamová | RNDr, PhD | Researcher | seismology, seismic source processes |
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Pavla Hrubcová | RNDr, PhD | Senior researcher | crustal structure, tectonophysics |
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Zuzana Jechumtálová | Researcher | seismic source processes | |
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Petr Kolář | Researcher | seismic sources, seismoelectric processes | |
| Martin Labuta | Mgr | PhD student | ambient vibration seismology, applied geophysics | |
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Ivo Opršal | Researcher | seismology, seismic wave modelling | |
| Ivan Pšenčík | Senior researcher | seismic wave modelling, seismic anisotropy | ||
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Jan Šílený | Senior researcher | seismic source processes, acoustic emission | |
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Václav Vavryčuk | Senior researcher | seismic sources, seismic anisotropy, tectonophysics |
Measurement of seismic ambient vibrations of a rock tower in Hrubá Skála, Czechia (photo: J. Burjánek)
Simulation of seismic wave propagation are performed using computer clusters of IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (photo: IT4I)
Seismic monitoring of an unstable rock slope at Alpe di Roscioro, Preonzo, Switzerland. (photo: Reto Seifert)
Borehole drilling for seismic and geochemical monitoring of active seismo-tectonic processes in Hartousov, West Bohemia (photo: Pavla Hrubcova)