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Andreas Rietbrock is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research predominantly spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics as the main subfield. Other notable subfields include Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their work engages deeply with several key topics including earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, seismology and earthquake studies, and earthquake detection and analysis.

Rietbrock's publications have appeared frequently in a number of academic venues, notably:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature
  • Seismological Research Letters

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Which Picker Fits My Data? A Quantitative Evaluation of Deep Learning Based Seismic Pickers," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "SeisBench-A Toolbox for Machine Learning in Seismology," 2022, Seismological Research Letters
  • "Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc," 2020, Nature
  • "Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Triggered crustal earthquake swarm across subduction segment boundary after the 2016 Pedernales, Ecuador megathrust earthquake," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Collaborations form an essential part of Rietbrock's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Saskia Goes
  • Catherine A. Rychert
  • Jenny Collier
  • Lidong Bie
  • Nicholas Harmon

Best Publications

  • Subduction and collision processes in the Central Andes constrained by converted seismic phases

    X. Yuan;S. V. Sobolev;R. Kind;O. Oncken

  • Which Picker Fits My Data? A Quantitative Evaluation of Deep Learning Based Seismic Pickers

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  • The Southern Andes between 36° and 40°S latitude: seismicity and average seismic velocities

    Mirjam Bohm;Stefan Lüth;Helmut Echtler;Günter Asch

  • Complex patterns of fluid and melt transport in the central Andean subduction zone revealed by attenuation tomography

    B. Schurr;G. Asch;A. Rietbrock;R. Trumbull

  • First seismic record for intra-arc strike-slip tectonics along the Liquiñe-Ofqui fault zone at the obliquely convergent plate margin of the southern Andes

    Dietrich Lange;J. Cembrano;A. Rietbrock;C. Haberland

  • Seismic imaging of a convergent continental margin and plateau in the central Andes (Andean Continental Research Project 1996 (ANCORP'96))

    O. Oncken;G. Asch;C. Haberland;J. Metchie

  • Coseismic and postseismic slip associated with the 2010 Maule Earthquake, Chile: Characterizing the Arauco Peninsula barrier effect

    Yu Nung Nina Lin;Anthony Sladen;Francisco Ortega-Culaciati;Mark Simons

  • Attenuation tomography in the western central Andes: A detailed insight into the structure of a magmatic arc

    Christian Haberland;Andreas Rietbrock

  • SeisBench—A Toolbox for Machine Learning in Seismology

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  • Locking of the Chile subduction zone controlled by fluid pressure before the 2010 earthquake

    Marcos Moreno;Christian Haberland;Onno Oncken;Andreas Rietbrock

  • Evidence for lithospheric detachment in the central Andes from local earthquake tomography

    B. Schurr;A. Rietbrock;G. Asch;R. Kind

  • P wave attenuation structure in the fault area of the 1995 Kobe earthquake

    Andreas Rietbrock

  • Seismic reflection image revealing offset of Andean subduction-zone earthquake locations into oceanic mantle

    Onno Oncken;Ewald Luschen;James Mechie;Stephan Vladimir Sobolev

  • Seismic slip on a low angle normal fault in the Gulf of Corinth: Evidence from high‐resolution cluster analysis of microearthquakes

    Andreas Rietbrock;Christel Tiberi;Frank Scherbaum;Hélène Lyon-Caen

  • The Acquisition of Source, Path, and Site Effects from Microearthquake Recordings Using Q Tomography: Application to the United Kingdom

    Benjamin Edwards;Andreas Rietbrock;Julian J. Bommer;Brian Baptie

  • Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc

    George F Cooper;George F Cooper;Colin G Macpherson;Jon D Blundy;Benjamin Maunder

  • Large extensional aftershocks in the continental forearc triggered by the 2010 Maule earthquake, Chile

    Isabelle Ryder;Andreas Rietbrock;Keith Kelson;Roland Bürgmann

  • Aftershock seismicity of the 2010 Maule Mw=8.8 Chile, earthquake: Correlation between co-seismic slip models and aftershock distribution?

    A. Rietbrock;I. Ryder;G. Hayes;C. Haberland

  • A high-resolution, time-variable afterslip model for the 2010 Maule Mw = 8.8, Chile megathrust earthquake

    Jonathan Bedford;Marcos Moreno;Juan Carlos Baez;Dietrich Lange

  • Structure of the seismogenic zone of the southcentral Chilean margin revealed by local earthquake traveltime tomography

    Christian Haberland;Andreas Rietbrock;Dietrich Lange;Dietrich Lange;Dietrich Lange;Klaus Bataille

  • Partial Melting in the Central Andean Crust: a Review of Geophysical, Petrophysical, and Petrologic Evidence

    Frank R. Schilling;Robert B. Trumbull;Heinrich Brasse;Christian Haberland

  • The September 2009 Padang earthquake

    John McCloskey;Dietrich Lange;Frederik Tilmann;Suleyman S. Nalbant

  • A narrowly spaced double‐seismic zone in the subducting Nazca plate

    A. Rietbrock;Felix Waldhauser

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederik Tilmann
Frederik Tilmann Freie Universität Berlin
Philippe Charvis
Philippe Charvis Université Côte d'Azur
Christian Haberland
Christian Haberland University of Potsdam
Nicholas Harmon
Nicholas Harmon Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jenny S. Collier
Jenny S. Collier Imperial College London
Timothy J. Henstock
Timothy J. Henstock University of Southampton
Yan Lavallée
Yan Lavallée Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Danny H Natawidjaja
Danny H Natawidjaja National Research and Innovation Agency of the Republic of Indonesia
Mario Ruiz
Mario Ruiz National Polytechnic School
Saskia Goes
Saskia Goes Imperial College London

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