Earthquake rupture processes, fault interactions, seismic hazard assessment, self-organized criticality, pattern recognition and statistical evaluation

Ongoing Projects:

• GFZ-Universität Potsdam graduate school “Natural Disasters: Generation, Propagation, and Impacts”
• DFG-project “Virtual Lower Rhine Embayment”
• Graduate school “Explorative Simulation in Earth Sciences (GEOSIM)”
• EU-project NERA-NA4 “Networking European Rapid Response Networks”
• Partner of the INGV-project “ByMur – multi-risk with Bayesian approach”
• Partner of the Uni-Hamburg Junior-Research Group “Mining Environments (MINE)”

2011 Habilitation in Geophysics (University of Potsdam)
1995-1999 Dr. rer. nat. in Nonlinear Dynamics (Univ. Potsdam, summa cum laude)
1988-1995 Diploma Physics (University of Bonn, summa cum laude)
1988-1990 Vordiplom Physics (University of Kassel)

• Fracture dynamics
• Mathematical Problems in Geophysics
• Complex Systems in Geophysics and Geology
• Seismology II: Seismic Hazard
• Advanced Methods in Signal Processing

• guest editor of 2 special issues in Tectonophysics
• reviewer of several scientific journals and national/international science foundations

1. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Holschneider, M., Brietzke, G., Steady-state solutions of rupture propagation in an earthquake simulator governed by rate and state dependent friction, European Phys. J. Special Topics, in press (2011).
2. Hainzl, S, Brietzke, G. B., Zöller, G., Quantitative earthquake forecasts resulting from static stress-triggering, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B11311, doi:10.1029/2010JB007473 (2010).
3. Daniel, G., Renard, F., Thouvenot, F., Jenatton, L., Helmstetter, A., Hainzl, S., Marsan, D., Guiguet, R., Changes in effective stress during the 2003-2004 Ubaye seismic swarm, France, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JB007551, in press (2010).
4. Dahm, T., Hainzl, S., Fischer, T., Bidirectional and unidirectional fracture growth during hydrofracturing: Role of driving stress gradients, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B12322, doi:10.1029/2009JB006817 (2010).
5. Wang, L., Hainzl, S., Özeren, M. S., Ben-Zion, Y., Postseismic deformation induced by brittle rock damage of aftershocks, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B10422, doi:10.1029/2010JB007532 (2010).
6. Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., Wang, R., Impact of the receiver fault distribution on aftershock activity, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B05315, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006224 (2010)
7. Cocco, M., Hainzl, S., Catalli, F., Enescu, B., Lombardi, A.M., Woessner, J., Sensitivity study of forecasts based on Coulomb stress calculation and rate- and state-dependent frictional response, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B05307, doi: 10.1029/2009JB006838 (2010).
8. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., M. Holscheider, Recurrence of large earthquakes: Bayesian inference from catalogs in presence of magnitude uncertainties, Pure Appl. Geophys., doi 10.1007/s00024-010-0078-0 (2010)
9. Enescu, B., Hainzl, S., Ben-Zion, Y., Seismicity patterns in southern California and correlations with surface heat flow data, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 99 (6), 3114-3123, doi: 10.1785/0120080038 (2009)
10. Wang, L., Wang, R., Roth, F., Enescu, B., Hainzl, S., Ergintav, S., Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation after the 1999 M7.4 Izmit earthquake, from GPS measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 178, 1220-1237 (2009)
11. Fischer, T., Hainzl, S., Dahm, T., Asymmetric hydraulic fracture as a result of driving stress gradients, Geophys. J. Int., 179, 634-639 (2009)
12. Hainzl, S., Enescu, B., Cocco, M., Woessner, J., Catalli, F., Wang, R., Roth, F., Aftershock modeling based on uncertain stress calculations, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B05309, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006011 (2009)
13. Faenza, L., Hainzl, S., Scherbaum, F., Statistical analysis of the Central-Europe seismicity, Tectonophysics, 470, 195-204 (2009)
14. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Holschneider, M., Recurrent large earthquakes in a fault region: What can be inferred from small and intermediate events?, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, 2641-2651 (2008)
15. Dahm, T., Fischer, T., Hainzl, S., Mechanical intrusion models and their implications for the possibility of magma-driven swarms in NW Bohemia region, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 52, 529-548 (2008)
16. Hainzl, S., Marsan, D., Dependence of the Omori-Utsu law parameters on mainshock magnitude: observations and modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10309, doi:10.1029/2007JB005492 (2008)
17. Kühn, N.M., Hainzl, S., Scherbaum, F., Non-Poissonian earthquake occurrence in coupled stress release models and its effect on seismic hazard, Geophys. J. Int., 174 (2), 649-658 (2008)
18. Hainzl, S., Christophersen, A., Enescu, B., Impact of earthquake rupture extensions on parameter estimations of point-process models, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, 2066-2072 (2008)
19. Fischer, T., Hainzl, S., Eisner, L., Shapiro, S.A., Le Calvez, J., Microseismic signatures of hydraulic fracture growth in tight-sandstone-shale formation: Observation and modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B02307, doi:10.1029/2007JB005070 (2008)
20. Beauval, C., Bard, P.-Y., Hainzl, S., Gueguen, P., Can strong-motion observations be used to contrain probabilistic seismic hazard estimates?, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, 509-520, doi: 10.1785/0120070006 (2008)
21. Faenza, L., Hainzl, S., Scherbaum, F., Beauval, C., Statistical analysis of the time-dependent earthquake occurrence and its impact on hazard in low seismicity regions, Geophys. J. Int., 171, 797-806 (2007)
22. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Recurrence time distributions of large earthquakes in a stochastic model for coupled fault systems: the role of fault interaction, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 97 (5), 1679-1687, doi: 10.1785/0120060262 (2007)
23. Zöller, G., Ben-Zion, Y., Holschneider, M., Hainzl, S., Estimating recurrence times and seismic hazard of large earthquakes on an individual fault, Geophys. J. Int., 170, 1300-1310, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03480.x (2007)
24. Hintersberger, E., Scherbaum, F., Hainzl, S., Update of likelihood-based ground-motion selection for seismic hazard analysis in Western Central Europe, Bull. Earthquake Eng., 5, 1-16 (2007)
25. Beauval, C., Hainzl, S., Scherbaum, F., The impact of the spatial uniform distribution of seismicity on probabilistic seismic hazard estimation, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 96 (6), 2465-2471, doi: 10.1785/0120060073 (2006)
26. Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., Main, I., Introduction to special issue: Dynamics of seismicity patterns and earthquake triggering, Tectonophysics, 424, 135-138 (2006)
27. Burton, P., Hainzl, S., Lasocki, S., Preface of special issue: Spatiotemporal models of seismicity and earthquake occurrence, Tectonophysics, 423, 1-2 (2006)
28. Hainzl, S., Kraft, T., Wassermann, J., Igel, H., Schmedes, E., Evidence for rainfall-triggered earthquake activity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L19303, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027642 (2006)
29. Hainzl, S., Scherbaum, F., Beauval, C., Estimating background activity based on interevent-time distribution, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 96, 313-320 (2006)
30. Beauval, C. Hainzl, S., Scherbaum, F., Probabilistic seismic hazard estimation in low-seismicity regions considering non-Poissonian seismic occurrence, Geophys. J. Int., 164, 543-550 (2006)
31. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Ben-Zion, Y., Holschneider, M., Earthquake activity related to seismic cycles in a model for a heterogeneous strike-slip fault, Tectonophysics, 423, 137-145 (2006)
32. Hainzl, S., Ogata, Y., Detecting fluid signals in seismicity data through statistical earthquake modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B05S07, doi: 10.1029/2004JB003247 (2005)
33. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Holschneider, M., Ben-Zion, Y., Aftershocks resulting from creeping sections in a heterogenous fault, Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L03308, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021871 (2005)
34. Schmedes, J., Hainzl, S., Reamer, S.-K., Scherbaum, F., Hinzen, K.-G., Moment release in the Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany: Seismological perspective of the deformation process, Geophys. J. Int., 160 (3), 901-909 (2005)
35. Hainzl, S., Seismicity patterns of earthquake swarms due to fluid intrusion and stress triggering, Geophys. J. Int., 159, 1090-1096 (2004)
36. Hainzl, S., Self-organization of earthquake swarms, J. of Geodynamics, 35, 157-172 (2003)
37. Narteau, C., Shebalin, P., Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., Holschneider, M., Emergence of a band-limited power law in the aftershock decay rate of a slider-block model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (11), doi: 10.1029/ 2003GL017110 (2003)
38. Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., Scherbaum, F., Earthquake clusters resulting from delayed rupture propagation in finite fault segments, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B1), 2013, doi: 10.1029/2001JB000610 (2003)
39. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., A systematic spatiotemporal test of the critical point hypothesis for large earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (11), 10.1029/2002GL014856 (2002)
40. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Kurths, J., Zschau, J., A systematic test on precursory seismic quiescence in Armenia, Natural Hazards, 26, 245-263 (2002)
41. Hainzl, S., Fischer, T., Indications for a successively triggered rupture growth underlying the 2000 earthquake swarm in Vogtland/NW-Bohemia, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 2338, doi: 10.1029/2002JB001865 (2002)
42. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Detecting premonitory seismicity patterns based on critical point dynamics, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 1, 93-98 (2001)
43. Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., The role of disorder and stress concentration in nonconservative fault systems, Physica A, 294, 67-84 (2001)
44. Zöller, G., Hainzl, S., Kurths, J., Observation of growing correlation length as an indicator for critical point behavior prior to large earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 2167-2176 (2001)
45. Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., Kurths, J., Self-organization of spatio-temporal earthquake clusters, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 7, 21-29 (2000)
46. Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., Kurths, J., Zschau, J., Seismic quiescence as an indicator for large earthquakes in a system of self-organized criticality, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 597-600 (2000
47. Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., Kurths, J., Self-organized criticality model for earthquakes: quiescence, foreshocks, and aftershocks, Int. J. Bif. Chaos, 9, 2249-2255 (1999)
48. Hainzl, S., Zöller, G., Kurths, J., Similar power laws for foreshock and aftershock sequences in a spring-block model for earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 7243-7253 (1999)
49. Zöller, G., Engbert, R., Hainzl, S., Kurths, J., Testing for unstable periodic orbits to characterize spatiotemporal dynamics, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 9, 1-10 (1998)