František Gallovič


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  • Born January 8, 1979 in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Graduated in 2002 at Charles University in Prague (supervisor Dr. Johana Brokešová)
  • PhD degree in 2006 at Charles University in Prague (supervisor Dr. Johana Brokešová)
  • Currently PostDoc researcher at the Department of Geophysics.

E-mail: gallovic@karel.troja.mff.cuni.cz

Department of Geophysics
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University
V Holešovičkách 2
180 00 Praha 8
Czech Republic
Phone: (+420-2) 21 91 25 28
Fax: (+420-2) 21 91 25 55


 Interests

Seismology: strong ground motions, ray theory, kinematic modeling of finite earthquake sources,  slip inversions, attenuation relations, seismic hazard, aftershock statistics, earthquake triggering, quasi-dynamic rate-and-state fault modeling.

Fortran, LaTex, PHP, mySQL, GMT, MPI

 Publications

Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J., Křížová, D., Plicka, V., Sokos, E., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, G-A. (2009). From Earthquake Centroid to Spatial-Temporal Rupture Evolution: Mw 6.3 Movri Mountain Earthquake, June 8, 2008, Greece, Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L21310, doi:10.1029/2009GL040283. Supplemental material.

Gallovič, F., Käser, M., Burjánek, J., Papaioannou, Ch. (2009). 3-D Modeling of Near-Fault Ground Motions with Non-Planar Rupture Models and Topography: the case of the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Wang, H., Igel, H., Gallovič, F., Cochard (2009). Source and basin effects on rotational ground motions: comparison with translations, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 99 (Special Issue on Rotational Seismology and Engineering Applications), 1162-1173.

Ameri, G., Gallovič, F., Pacor, F., Emolo, A. (2009). Uncertainties in strong ground-motion prediction with finite-fault synthetic seismograms: an application to the 1984 M 5.7 Gubbio, central Italy, earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 99, 647-663.

Zollo, A., Iannaccone, G., Lancieri, M., Cantore, L., Convertito, V., Emolo, A., Festa, G., Gallov, F., Vassallo, M., Martino, C., Satriano, C., Gasparini, P. (2009). The Earthquake Early Warning System in Southern Italy: Methodologies and Performance Evaluation, Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, special issue on New Methods and Applications of Earthquake Early Warning, L00B07, doi:10.1029/2008GL036689. Supplemental material.

Gallovič, F. (2008). Heterogeneous Coulomb stress perturbation during earthquake cycles in a 3D rate-and-state fault model, Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, L21306, doi:10.1029/2008GL035614.

Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F., Sokos, E., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, A. (2008). Quick Fault-Plane Identification by a Geometrical Method: Application to the Mw 6.2 Leonidio Earthquake, 6 January 2008, Greece, Seism. Res. Lett., 79, 653-662.

Wang, H., Igel, H., Gallovič, F., Cochard, A., Ewald, M. (2008). Source-Related Variations of Ground Motions in 3-D media: Application to the Newport-Inglewood Fault, Los Angeles Basin, Geophys. J. Int., 175, 202-214.

Käser, M., Gallovič, F. (2008). Effects of Complicated 3D Rupture Geometries on Earthquake Ground Motion and Their Implications: A Numerical Study, Geophys. J. Int., 172, 276-292.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2008). Probabilistic Aftershock Hazard Assessment I: Numerical Testing of Methodological Features, J. Seismology 12, N. 1, 53-64, doi: 10.1007/s10950-007-9072-0.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2008). Probabilistic Aftershock Hazard Assessment II: Application of Strong Ground Motion Modeling, J. Seismology 12, N. 1, 65-78, doi: 10.1007/s10950-007-9070-2.

Gallovič, F., Barsch, R., de la Puente, J., Igel, H (2007). Digital Library for Computational Seismology, Eos,  Vol. 88, No. 50, 559.

Gallovič, F., Burjánek, J. (2007). High-frequency Directivity in Strong Ground Motion Modeling Methods, Annals of Geophysics,  Vol. 50, N. 2, 203-211.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2007). Hybrid k-squared Source Model for Strong Ground Motion Simulations: Introduction, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 160, 34-50, doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.09.002.

Franceschina, G., Pacor, F., Cultrera, G., Emolo, A., Gallovič, F. (2006). Modelling Directivity Effects of the October 31, 2002 (Mw=5.8), Molise, Southern Italy, Earthquake, Proceedings of First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Switzerland, 3-8 September.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2004). On strong ground motion synthesis with k^-2 slip distributions, J. Seismology 8, 211-224, doi:10.1023/B:JOSE.0000021438.79877.58.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2004). The k^-2 rupture model parametric study: example of the 1999 Athens earthquake, Studia geoph. et geod 48, 589-613, doi:10.1023/B:SGEG.0000037473.70906.08.

 Popularization of science

Zahradník, J., Burjánek, J., Gallovič, F. (2005). Fyzikální výzkum zemětřesení (in Czech), Čs. časopis pro fyziku 55 (2/2005), 120-126.

Burjánek, J., Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J. (2005). Seismologické předpovědi: skutečnost a sen (in Czech), Čs. časopis pro fyziku 55 (2/2005), 127-134.

Thesis

Gallovič, F. (2006). Kinematic modeling of strong ground motions. PhD Thesis, Dept. of Geophysics, Charles University, Prague. Download.

Gallovič, F. (2002). High frequency strong motion synthesis for k^-2 rupture models. Master Thesis, Dept. of Geophysics, Charles University, Prague. Download: pdf/zipped ps version.

 Fortran codes on demand

k-2 hybrid slip generator

 Teaching activities

Lecture: Global geophysics

Lecture exercises: Fourier spectral analysis, Seismology

Stays

2007: 8 months at Laboratorio di Sismologia, Universita' degli Studi "Federico II" di Napoli, (PostDoc position, invitation by Antonio Emolo)

2007: 2 months at ITSAK, Thessaloniki, Greece (PostDoc position withing ITSAK-GR project, invitation by Christos Papaioannou)

2006-2007: 6 months at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany (PostDoc position within the SPICE project, invitation by Heiner Igel)

2004-2005: 4 months at Dept. of Physics of the Earth and Planets, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (visiting researcher within the SPICE project, invitation by Peter Moczo)

2004: 3 months at Dept. of Physics of the Earth and Planets, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (visiting researcher within the SPICE project, invitation by Peter Moczo)

2003: 4 months at Disaster Prevention Research Institute (D.P.R.I.), Kyoto University, Japan (visiting researcher, invitation by Kojiro Irikura)

 Summer schools

Third SPICE Research and Training Workshop on Computational seismology and inverse problems, Kinsale, Ireland, July 22 - 28 (2006)

Second SPICE Open Research and Training Workshop on Large-Scale Simulations and Computational Aspects, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, September 4 - 10 (2005)

First SPICE Research and Training Workshop, Numerical methods applied to wave propagation problems, Venice International University, Italy, September 25 - October 2 (2004)

6th workshop on 3-dimensional modelling of seismic waves, generation, propagation and their inversion, Trieste, Italy (2002)

 Oral presentations

Zollo, A., Iannaccone, G., Cantore, L., Convertito, V., Emolo, A., Festa, G., Gallovič, F., Lancieri, M., Martino, C., Satriano, C., Vassallo, M. (2008). Performance Test of Earthquake Early Warning System in Southern Italy, oral presentation at European Seismological Commission ESC 2008, 31st General Assembly, Hersonissos, Greece, 7-12 September.

Käser, M., Gallovič, F., Stupazzini, M. (2007). 3D numerical Modeling of Effects of Complicated Rupture Geometries on Earthquake Ground Motions, oral presentation at EGU General Assembly, 15 - 20 April, Vienna, Austria.

Gallovič, F., Käser, M. (2007). Effects of Complicated 3D Rupture Geometries on Earthquake Ground Motion: A Numerical Study, oral presentation at Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universita di Napoli "Federico II", Italy, and at INGV Rome, Italy.

Franěk, P., Gallovič, F. (2006). Preliminary results of the strong earthquake-motion kinematic modeling in the Grenoble Valley, French Alps, oral presentation at 3rd SPICE Research and Training Workshop, Kinsale, Ireland.

Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F., Brechler, J., Halenka, T. (2006). Seismic and environmental hazard assessment in the MAGMA project, oral presentation at Workshop on Multirisk Approaches: Quantitative probabilistic methods, comparable assessment procedures, domino effects (NaRAs Project), Brussels, Belgium.

Gallovič, F., Emolo, A. (2005). Strong ground motion modeling by hybrid approach: preliminary results for the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, M=6.9, southern Italy, oral presentation at Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universita di Napoli "Federico II", Italy, and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Milan, Italy.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2005). Kinematic strong ground-motion modeling by the hybrid k-squared source model, oral presentation at SPICE meeting (local scale task group), ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2004). Towards hybrid combination of integral and composite
earthquake source model, oral presentation at Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universita di Napoli "Federico II", Italy.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2004). Realistic Kinematic Models of Finite-Extent Earthquake Source, oral presentation at Dept. of Physics of the Earth and Planets, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2004). Hybridní kombinace kinematického a kompozitního modelu zdroje, oral presentation at Česko-Slovenské seizmologické dni, Smolenice, Slovakia. (in Czech)

Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J. (2003)., Measuring the match between observed and synthetic strong motion records, oral presentation at IUGG, Sapporo, Japan.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. , Burjánek, J., Zahradník, J. (2003)., Directivity in strong motion prediction techniques, oral presentation at D.P.R.I., Kyoto University, Japan.

Burjánek, J., Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2002). Comparison of three modelling methods on the Colfiorito event, oral presentation at PRESAP meeting, Paris, September.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2002). Kinematic strong-motion modelling, oral presentation at PRESAP meeting, Paris, September.

Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J. (2002). Strong motion acceleration modelling for k^-2 slip distribution - application to 1999 Athens earthquake, oral presentation at Europ. Geophys. Soc., Nice, France.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2001). k^-2 Stochastic Modelling of the Athens 1999 Earthquake Using Ray theory, oral presentation at PRESAP meeting, Prague, September.

 Posters

Gallovič, F. (2008). Response of 3D Rate-and-State Fault Model to Partial Coulomb Stress Loading, poster presentation at European Seismological Commission ESC 2008, 31st General Assembly, Hersonissos, Greece, 7-12 September and at New Challenges in Earthquake Dynamics: Observing and Modelling a Multi-Scale System, ESF Research Conference, Obergurgl, Austria, 18-23 October.

Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F., Sokos, E., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, G.-A. (2008). Quick Fault-Plane Identification by a Geometrical Method: The Mw6.2 Leonidio Earthquake, January 6, 2008, Greece, and Some Other Recent Applications, poster presentation at European Seismological Commission ESC 2008, 31st General Assembly, Hersonissos, Greece, 7-12 September.

Gallovič, F., Burjánek, J., Käser, M., Papaioannou, Ch. (2007). Preliminary Results of Modeling of Strong Ground Motion due to the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake, poster presentation at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA. Download!

Pham, N. D., Igel, H., Cochard, A., Schreiber, U., Velikoseltsev, A., Käser, M., de la Puente, J., Gallovič, F. (2007). Rotational Signals In The P Coda, poster presentation at 4th SPICE Research and Training Workshop, Cargese, Corsica, France.

Gallovič, F., Franek, P. (2007). Application of Synthetic Transfer Functions to Earthquake Motion Scenario Study in the Grenoble Valley, French Alps, poster presentation at EGU General Assembly, 15 - 20 April, Vienna, Austria.

Gallovič, F., Barsch, R., Igel, H., Moczo, P., Pazak, P., Mai, P. M., Qin, Y. (2007). The SPICE Library: Codes, Training Material and Benchmarking in Computational Seismology, poster presentation at EGU General Assembly, 15 - 20 April, Vienna, Austria.

Franek, P., Gallovič, F. (2006). Kinematic modeling of strong earthquake motion
in the Grenoble Valley, French Alps, poster presentation at IIIrd International Symposium on
"The Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion",
Grenoble, France, 29 August - 01 September.

Pacor, F., Cultrera, G., Emolo, A., Gallovič, F., Cirella, A., Hunstad, I., Piatanesi, A., Tinti, E., Ameri, G., Franceschina, G. (2006).  Effects of Directivity on Shaking Scenarios: an Application to the 1980 Irpinia Earthquake, M6.9, Southern Italy, poster presentation at SSA 2006 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA. Download!

Convertito, C., Gallovič, F., Emolo, A., Zollo, A. (2005).  Integrated Deterministic and Probabilistic Strong Ground Motion Prediction: Application to 1980 Irpinia Earthquake, M=6.9, Southern Italy, poster presentation at AGU 2005 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S51D-1045. Download!

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2005). Numerical testing of certain features of probabilistic aftershock hazard assessment, poster presentation at AGU 2005 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S53B-1107. Download!

Emolo, A., Gallovič, F. (2005). Relations Between Instrumental Ground Motion Parameters and MCS Intensity in Italy, Application to the Simulated 1980 Irpinia Earthquake, M=6.9, Southern Italy, poster presentation at IASPEI General Assembly, October 2-8, Santiago, Chile. Download!

Convertito, V., Emolo, A., Gallovič, F., Zollo, A. (2005). Probabilistic-Deterministic Hazard Scenario for the 1980 Irpinia Earthquake M=6.9, Southern Italy, poster presentation at IASPEI General Assembly, October 2-8, Santiago, Chile. Download!

Festa, G., Zollo, A., Mai, M., Holden, C., Burjanek, J., Carli, S., Emolo, A., Gallovič, F., Lancieri, M., Madariaga, R. (2005). Infering the Resolution of Kinematic Inversion Techniques: a Blind Test, poster presentation at 2nd SPICE Research and Training Workshop, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia and at AGU 2005 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract NG43B-0581.

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2004). A k-squared Composite Source Model: Hybrid Description of Comlex Faulting, poster presentation at  XXIX General Assembly of the European
Seismological Commission
, Potsdam, Germany. Download!

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. , Irikura, K. (2003). Seismic Hazard Assessment for Large Aftershocks, poster presentation at AGU 2003 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA. Download!

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. , Burjánek, J., Zahradník, J. (2003). Directivity in Kinematic and Composite source models, poster presentation at EGS-AGU-EGU Joint Assembly, Nice, France and at IUGG, Sapporo, Japan. Download!

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2003). Finite-Extent k^-2 Kinematic Source Modeling: the 1999 Athens Earthquake Strong-Motion Accelerograms, poster presentation at EGS-AGU-EGU Joint Assembly, Nice, France and at IUGG, Sapporo, Japan. Download! (1.5MB).

Gallovič, F., Brokešová, J. (2002). Methodical aspects of the k^-2 kinematic source modelling, poster presentation at Europ. Geophys. Soc., Nice, France. Download! (2.5MB).

Co-ordination of projects

Probabilistic modeling of seismic hazard due to aftershocks of large earthquakes, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic 205/08/P013, 2008-2010.

Hybrid kinematic modeling of earthquake strong ground motions, Grant Agency of Charles University 292/2005/B-GEO/MFF, 2005-2006.

 Participation in projects

Quick Extended Source Solution, co-ordinated by J. Zahradník, Grant Agency of Czech Republic 205/07/0502, 2007-2009.

Scenari di scuotimento e di danno atteso in aree di interesse prioritario e/o strategico (S3), co-ordinated by M. Mucciarelli and F. Pacor, Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italian Civil Defence Department, 2005-2007.

SPICE (Seismic Wave Propagation and Imaging in Complex Media: a European Network, co-ordinated by Heiner Igel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University), MRTN-CT-2003-504267, 2004-2007.

Modeling of Strong Ground Motions, co-ordinated by J. Zahradník, Grant Agency of Czech Republic 205/03/1047, 2003-2005.

3D modelling of strong ground motion including realistic excitation, principal investigator I. Opršal, research project of Grant Agency of Charles University GAUK 235/2003/B-GEO/MFF, 2003.

PRESAP (Towards Practical, Real-Time Estimation of Spatial Aftershock Probabilities: a Feasibility Study in Earthquake Hazard, co-ordinated by J. McCloskey, University of Ulster), EU Project EVG1-CT-1999-00001, 2000-2003.


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