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)
  • Employment at the Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University: 2005-2011 Researcher, 2012-now Assistant Professor

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. (2012). Complexity of the Mw6.3 2009 L’Aquila (Central Italy) earthquake: 1. Multiple finite-extent source inversion, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04307, doi: 10.1029/2011JB008709. Supplemental material (Appendix).

Ameri, G., Gallovič, F., Pacor, F. (2012). Complexity of the Mw6.3 2009 L’Aquila (Central Italy) earthquake: 2. Broadband strong-motion modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04308, doi: 10.1029/2011JB008729.

Sokos, E., Zahradník, J., Kiratzi, A., Janský, J., Gallovič, F., Novotný, O., Kostelecký, J., Serpetsidaki, A., Tselentis, G.-A. (2012). The January 2010 Efpalio earthquake sequence in the western Corinth Gulf (Greece), Tectonophysics, 530-531, 299-309, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.005.

Gallovič, F., Zahradník, J.  (2011). Toward understanding slip-inversion uncertainty and artifacts 2: singular value analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B02309, doi: 10.1029/2010JB007814. Supplemental material (Appendix).

Ameri, G., Emolo, A., Pacor, F., Gallov, F. (2011). Ground‐Motion Simulations for the M 6.9 Irpinia 1980 Earthquake (Southern Italy) and Scenario Events, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 101, 1136-1151, doi: 10.1785/0120100231.

Chiauzzi, L., Masi, A., Mucciarelli, M., Vona, M., Pacor, F., Cultrera, G., Gallovič, F., Emolo, A. (2011). Building damage scenarios based on exploitation of Housner intensity derived from finite faults ground motion simulations, Bull. Earthquake Eng., 10, 517-545, doi:10.1007/s10518-011-9309-8.

Zahradník, J., Gallovič, F. (2010). Toward understanding slip-inversion uncertainty and artifacts, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B09310, doi:10.1029/2010JB007414.

Gallovič, F., Käser, M., Burjánek, J., Papaioannou, Ch. (2010). Three-dimensional modeling of near-fault ground motions with nonplanar rupture models and topography: Case of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B03308, doi:10.1029/2008JB006171.

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.

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, doi: 10.1785/0120080115.

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, doi: 10.1785/0120080240.

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, doi: 10.1785/gssrl.79.5.653.

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, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03878.x.

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, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03627.x.

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 version.

 Fortran codes on demand

k-2 hybrid slip generator

 Teaching activities

Lectures: Global geophysics, Seismic Wave Propagation, Methods of Geophysical Data Processing

Lecture exercises: Fourier spectral analysis, Seismology

Seminar: Seismological Software

Stays

2007: 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)

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.


 Last changes: 30 October 2011

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