Pavla Hrubcová

RNDr. Pavla Hrubcová, Ph.D. is a senior research seismologist working in the Department of Seismology with expertise in complex crustal and upper mantle studies (ray tracing, full waveform modelling, tomography, wave propagation, reflectivity modelling, and data processing) and micro and local seismicity oriented on tectonic interpretations and implications.

Publications

• De Pascale, G.P., Fischer, T.J., Moreland, W.M., Geirsson, H., Hrubcová, P., Drouin, V., et al. (2024). On the move: 2023 observations on real time graben formation, Grindavík, Iceland. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110150. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110150
• Rapprich, V., Vylita, T., Molnár, K., Hora, J.M., Benkó, Z., Čurda, M., Magna, T., Koubová, M., Pour, O., Hrubcová, P., Fischer, T.J., 2024. Origin of the apatite-dominated rock penetrating the volcaniclastic sequence in the fill of the Pleistocene Bažina maar (western Czech Republic). Journal of Geosciences, 69, 113-127. doi: 10.3190/jgeosci.392
• Hrubcová, P., Rastjoo, G., and Vavryčuk, V., 2024. Stress variations in southern Tonga slab derived from deep‐focus earthquakes. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB028039. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028039
• Hrubcová, P., Fischer, T., Rapprich, V., Valenta, J., Tábořík, P., Mrlina, J., Dahm, Vylita, T., Beránek, R., Klanica, R., Vlček, J., and Turjaková, V. (2023). Two small volcanoes, one inside the other: Geophysical and drilling investigation of Bažina maar in western Eger Rift. Earth and Space Science, 10, e2023EA003009. http://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003009
• Hrubcová, P., Vavryčuk, V., 2023. Tectonic stress changes related to plate spreading prior to the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption in SW Iceland. Tectonophysics, 851, 229761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229761.
• Fischer, T., Hrubcová, P., Salama, A., Doubravová, J., Ágústsdóttir, T., Gudnason, E.Á., Horálek, J., Hersir, G.P., 2022. Swarm seismicity illuminates stress transfer prior to the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 594, 117685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117685.
• Fischer, T., Hrubcová, P., Dahm, T., Woith, H., Vylita, T., Ohrnberger, M., Vlček, J., Horálek, J., Dedeček, P., Zimmer, M., Lipus, M.P., Pierdominici, S., Kallmeyer, J., Krüger, F., Hannemann, K., Korn, M., Kämpf, H., Reinsch, T., Klicpera, J., Vollmer, J., Daskalopoulou, K., 2022. ICDP Eger Rift Observatory: Magmatic Fluids Driving the Earthquake Swarms and Deep Biosphere – Scientific and Technological Achievements. Sci. Dril., 31, 31–49, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-31-31-2022.

• Godová, D., Bielik, M., Hrubcová, P., Šimonová, B., Dérerová, J., and Pašteka, R., 2021. Lithospheric density model along the CEL09 profile and its geological implications. Geologica Carpathica, 72 (6), 447- 460. doi: https://doi.org/10.31577/geolcarp.72.6.1

• Hrubcová, P., Vavryčuk, V., 2021. Contact of the Samoan plume with the Tonga subduction from intermediate and deep-focus earthquakes, Surveys Geophys., 42, 1347–1375, doi: 10.1007/s10712-021-09679-9.

• Hrubcová, P., Doubravová, J., Vavryčuk, V., 2021, Non-double-couple earthquakes in 2017 swarm in Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland: Sensitive indicator of volcano-tectonic movements at slow-spreading rift, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 563, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116875

• Najdahmadi, B., Hrubcová, P., Vavryčuk, V., and Bohnhoff, M, 2018. Imaging the Mudurnu Segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone from Waveforms of Small Earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 123, doi: 10.1002/2017JB015198.

• Hrubcová, P., Geissler, W. H., Bräuer, K., Vavryčuk, V., Tomek, Č., Kämpf, H., 2017. Active magmatic underplating in western Eger Rift, Central Europe. Tectonics, 36. doi: 10.1002/2017TC004710.

• Vavryčuk, V., Hrubcová, P., 2017. Seismological evidence of fault weakening due to erosion by fluids from observations of intraplate earthquake swarms, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi: 10.1002/2017JB013958.

• Hrubcová, P., Vavryčuk, V., Boušková, A., Bohnhoff, M., 2016. Shallow Crustal Discontinuities Inferred from Waveforms of Microearthquakes: Method and Application to KTB Drill Site and West Bohemia Swarm Area, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 881-902, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012548.

• Mullick, N., Buske, S., Hrubcová, P., Ruzek, B., Shapiro, S., Wigger, P., Fischer, T., 2015. Seismic imaging of the geodynamic activity at the western Eger rift in central Europe, Tectonophysics, 647-648, 105-111, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.02.010.

• Hrubcová, P., Środa, P., Complex local Moho topography in the Western Carpathians: Indication of the ALCAPA and the European Plate contact. Tectonophysics, 638, 63-81, 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.10.013.

• Dahm, T., Hrubcová, P., Fischer, T., Horálek, J., Korn, M., Buske, S., and Wagner, D., 2013. Eger Rift ICDP: an observatory for study of non-volcanic, mid-crustal earthquake swarms and accompanying phenomena, Sci. Drilling, 16, 93-99, doi: 10.5194/sd-16-93-2013.

• Fischer, T., J. Horálek, P. Hrubcová, V. Vavryčuk, K. Bräuer, and H. Kämpf. Intra-continental earthquake swarms in West-Bohemia and Vogtland: a review, Tectonophysics, 611, 1-27, 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.11.001.

• Hrubcová, P., V. Vavryčuk, A. Boušková, and J. Horálek. Moho depth determination from waveforms of microearthquakes in the West Bohemia/Vogtland swarm area, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1–17, doi:10.1029/2012JB009360, 2013.

• Hrubcová, P., P. Środa, V. Vavryčuk, V. Babuška, M. Grad. Comment on the Seismic Method Depth-Recursive Tomography on Grid (DRTG) Developed by Miroslav Novotný and Recently Published in Three Papers in Surveys in Geophysics, Surveys in Geophysics, doi: 10.1007/s10712-013-9228-0. 2013.

• Hrubcová, P., P. Środa, M. Grad, W.H. Geissler, A. Guterch, J. Vozár, E. Hegedűs, and Sudetes 2003 Working Group. From the Variscan to the Alpine Orogeny: Crustal structure of the Bohemian Massif and Western Carpathians in the light of the SUDETES 2003 seismic data, Geophys. J. Int., 183, 611-633, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04766.x, 2010.

• Hrubcová, P., and W. H. Geissler. The Crust-Mantle Transition and the Moho beneath the Vogtland/West Bohemian Region in the Light of Different Seismic Methods, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 53, 275-294, 2009.

• Hrubcová, P., P. Środa, and CELEBRATION 2000 Working Group. Crustal structure at the easternmost termination of the Variscan belt based on CELEBRATION 2000 and ALP 2002 data, Tectonophysics, 460, 55-75, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.07.009, 2008.

• Grad, M., A. Guterch, S. Mazur, G. R. Keller, A. Špičák, P. Hrubcová, W. H. Geissler, and SUDETES 2003 Working Group, Lithospheric structure of the Bohemian Massif and adjacent Variscan belt in central Europe based on Profile S01 from the SUDETES 2003 experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10304, doi:10.1029/2007JB005497, 2008.

• Brückl, E., F. Bleibinhaus, A. Gosar, M. Grad, A. Guterch, P. Hrubcová, G.R. Keller, M. Majdański, F. Šumanovac, T. Tiira, J. Yliniemi, E. Hegedüs, and H. Thybo, Crustal Structure Due to Collisional and Escape Tectonics in the Eastern Alps Region Based on Profiles Alp01 and Alp02 from the ALP 2002 Seismic Experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B06308, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004687, 2007.

• Růžek, B., P. Hrubcová, M. Novotný, A. Špičák, and O. Karousová. Inversion of travel times obtained during active seismic refraction experiments Celebration 2000, Alp 2002 and Sudetes 2003, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 51, No. 1, 141-164 (24), doi:10.1007/s11200-007-0007-6, 2007.

• Majdański, M., E. Kozlovskaya, M. Grad, and SUDETES 2003 Working Group, 3D structure of the Earth’s crust beneath the northern part of the Bohemian Massif, Tectonophysics, 437, 17-36, 2007.

• Środa, P., W. Czuba, M. Grad, A. Guterch, A. K. Tokarski, A. Janik, M. Rauch, G. R. Keller, E. Hegedüs, J. Vozár, E. Gaczyński, M. Malinowski, M. Zuchniak, H.Thybo, P. Hrubcová, A. Špičák, E. Brückl, Z. Hajnal, O. Selvi, and S. Harder. Crustal and upper mantle structure of the Western Carpathians from CELEBRATION 2000 profiles CEL01 and CEL04: seismic models and geological implications. Geophys. J. Int., 167, 2, 737-760. ISSN 0956-540X, 2006.

• Majdański, M., M. Grad, A. Guterch, and SUDETES 2003 Working Group. 2-D seismic tomographic and ray tracing modelling of the crustal structure across the Sudetes Mountains basing on SUDETES 2003 experiment data, Tectonophysics, 413, 249-269, 2006.

• Hrubcová, P., P. Środa, A. Špičák, A. Guterch, M. Grad, G. R. Keller, E. Brückl, and H. Thybo. Crustal and uppermost mantle structure of the Bohemian Massif based on CELEBRATION 2000 data, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B11305, doi:10.1029/2004JB003080, 2005.

• Vavryčuk, V., P. Hrubcová, M. Brož, J. Málek, and the ALP 2002 Working Group. Azimuthal variation of Pg velocity in the Moldanubian, Czech Republic: observations based on a multi-azimuthal common-shot experiment, Tectonophysics, 387, 189– 203, 2004.

• Růžek, B., V. Vavryčuk, P. Hrubcová, J. Zedník, and the CELEBRATION Working Group. Crustal anisotropy in the Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic: Observations based on Central European Lithospheric Experiment Based on Refraction (CELEBRATION) 2000, J. Geophys. Res., 108(B8), 2392, doi: 10.1029/2002JB002242, 2003.

• Brückl, E., T. Bodoky, E. Hegedüs, P. Hrubcová, A. Gosar, M. Grad, A. Guterch, Z. Hajnal , G.R. Keller, A. Špičák, F. Sumanovac, H. Thybo , F. Weber, and ALP 2002 Working Group. ALP 2002 seismic experiment, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 47 (3), 671-679, 2003.
  Grad, M., A. Špičák, G. R. Keller, A. Guterch, M. Brož, E. Hegedűs, and Working Group. SUDETES 2003 seismic experiment, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 47, 681–689, doi: 10.1023/A:1024732206210, 2003.

• Guterch, A., M. Grad, A. Špičák, E. Brückl, E. Hegedűs, G. R. Keller, H. Thybo, and CELEBRATION 2000, ALP 2002, SUDETES 2003 Working Groups. An overview of recent seismic refraction experiments in central Europe, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 47, 651–657, doi: 10.1023/A:1024775921231, 2003.

• Guterch, A., M. Grad, G. R. Keller, K. Posgay, J. Vozár, A. Špičák, E. Brückl, Z. Hajnal, H. Thybo, O. Selvi, and the CELEBRATION 2000 Experiment Team. CELEBRATION 2000 seismic experiment, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 47, 659–669, doi: 10.1023/A:1024728005301, 2003.

• Hrubcová, P., A. Špičák, J. Švancara, B. Růžek, F. Hubatka, A. Tomášková, and M. Brož. Výzkum hluboké stavby Českého masivu CELEBRATION 2000, Závěrečná zpráva projektu VaV/630/2/00, MS GFÚ AV ČR, 2002.

• Hrubcová, P., A. Špičák, O. Karousová, M. Novotný, M. Brož, J. Švancara, ALP Working Group, and SUDETES Working Group. Výzkum hluboké stavby Českého masívu SLICE 2002, Etapová zpráva projektu VaV/630/3/02 za rok 2003, MS GFÚ AV ČR, 2003.

• Novotný, M., M. Brož, P. Hrubcová, F. Hubatka, O. Karousová, B. Růžek, A. Špičák, J. Švancara, P. Špaček, D. Uličný, ALP Working Group, and SUDETES Working Group, Výzkum hluboké stavby Českého masívu SLICE 2002, Závěrečná zpráva za projekt VaV/630/3/02, MS GFÚ AV ČR, 2005.

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