• Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments as basis for building codes
• Regional earthquake cataloging and historical seismology
• Induced seismicity
• Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment
• Macroseismology
• Intensity related ground motion models
• Seismic risk assessment and synopsis of risk due to different perils

Research topics and related projects (selection):

• Seismic hazard harmonisation for the European-Mediterranean region (part of the projects  SHARE, GEM1, NERIES, SESAME und GSHAP)
• Providing seismic loading for national building codes, seismic regulations, or for the insurance industry (for the codes DIN4149, DIN19700, for use by the insurance industry e.g. in the frame of the project HORA)
• Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment for the coast line of the Mediterranean sea (as part of the project TRANSFER)
• Induced seismic hazard assessment related to geothermal projects (as part of the project  GEISER)
• Regional long-term earthquake cataloging and historical seismology with the latest catalogue products EMEC and CENEC
• Macroseismology with the European Macroseismic Skale EMS-98, which is not only used for intensity assignments but widely also as risk predictive tool
• Intensity related ground motion models mainly developed in the frame of the project SAFER
• Seismic risk  mapping of Germany and risk synopsis of the city of Cologne (part of the project CEDIM and DFNK)

Grünthal, G.; Wahlström, R. (2012): The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue (EMEC) for the last millennium. Journal of Seismology, 16, 3, 535-570.

Sørensen, M. B.; Spada, M.; Babeyko, A. Y.; Wiemer, S.; Grünthal, G. (2012): Probabilistic tsunami hazard in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B01305.

Musson, R.; Grünthal, G.; Stucchi, M. (2010): The comparison of macroseismic intensity scales. Journal of Seismology, 14, 2, 413-428.

Grünthal G, Wahlström R, Stromeyer D (2009) Harmonization check of M_w within the central, northern, and northwestern European earthquake catalogue (CENEC). J Seismol 13(4): 613-632

Burkhard, M.; Grünthal, G. (2009): Seismic source zone characterization for the seismic hazard assessment project PEGASOS by the Expert Group 2 (EG 1b). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102, 1, 149-188.

Stromeyer, D.; Grünthal, G. (2009): Attenuation relationship of macroseismic intensities in Central Europe. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 99, 2A, 554-565.

Grünthal, G., Thieken, A. H., Schwarz, J., Radtke, K., Smolka, A. and Merz, B.: Comparative Risk Assessments for the City of Cologne – Storms, Floods, Earthquakes. Natural Hazards 38 (1-2), 21-44, 2006.

Suckale J, Grünthal G (2009) A probabilistic seismic hazard model for Vanuatu. Bull Seismol Soc Am 99(4): 2108-2126

Giardini D, Grünthal G, Shedlock KM, Zhang P (1999) The GSHAP Global Seismic Hazard Map. Ann Geofis 42(6): 1225-1230

Grünthal, G. (ed.): European Macroseismic Scale 1998 (EMS-98). Cahiers du Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie 15, Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie, Luxembourg, 99 pp., 1998.