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Bernd Schurr is a researcher affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany. Their academic work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Geophysics. Over their research career, they have contributed extensively to fields such as earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and geological and geochemical analysis.

Their publication record includes a significant number of articles in high-impact journals. Frequent publication venues where their work appears include Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Tectonics, Nature Communications, and Geophysical Journal International.

Bernd Schurr has authored and co-authored multiple papers, notable among them are:

  • "Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes," 2020, Nature
  • "The Hindu Kush slab break-off as revealed by deep structure and crustal deformation," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Forming a Mogi Doughnut in the Years Prior to and Immediately Before the 2014 M8.1 Iquique, Northern Chile, Earthquake," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Full Waveform Inversion Beneath the Central Andes: Insight Into the Dehydration of the Nazca Slab and Delamination of the Back-Arc Lithosphere," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "DeepPhasePick: A method for detecting and picking seismic phases from local earthquakes based on highly optimized convolutional and recurrent deep neural networks," 2021, Geophysical Journal International

Their research topics span a range of specialized areas within Earth sciences:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Earthquake detection and analysis
  • Seismology and earthquake studies
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques

Bernd Schurr collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Lothar Ratschbacher
  • Xiaohui Yuan
  • Sofia-Katerina Kufner
  • Wasja Bloch
  • Sabrina Metzger

Throughout their career, Schurr has contributed to advancing understanding in geophysical phenomena related to earthquake mechanics, slab dynamics, and seismic phase detection using modern machine learning methods. Their work integrates detailed seismic imaging with broader tectonic and geophysical models.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Gradual unlocking of plate boundary controlled initiation of the 2014 Iquique earthquake

    Bernd Schurr;Guenter Asch;Sebastian Hainzl;Jonathan Bedford

  • An Improved Automatic Scheme for Empirical Baseline Correction of Digital Strong-Motion Records

    Rongjiang Wang;Bernd Schurr;Claus Milkereit;Zhigang Shao

  • Seismic imaging of subducting continental lower crust beneath the Pamir

    F. Schneider;X. Yuan;B Schurr;J. Mechie

  • Deep India meets deep Asia: Lithospheric indentation, delamination and break-off under Pamir and Hindu Kush (Central Asia)

    Sofia-Katerina Kufner;Bernd Schurr;Christian Sippl;Xiaohui Yuan

  • 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

  • Geometry of the Pamir-Hindu Kush intermediate-depth earthquake zone from local seismic data

    Christian Sippl;B Schurr;X. Yuan;J. Mechie

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

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

  • Fault slip distribution of the 2014 Iquique, Chile, earthquake estimated from ocean-wide tsunami waveforms and GPS data

    Aditya Riadi Gusman;Satoko Murotani;Kenji Satake;Mohammad Heidarzadeh

  • Seismotectonics of the Pamir

    Bernd Schurr;Lothar Ratschbacher;Christian Sippl;Richard Gloaguen

  • Crustal and uppermost mantle velocity structure along a profile across the Pamir and southern Tien Shan as derived from project TIPAGE wide-angle seismic data

    James Mechie;Xiaohui Yuan;B. Schurr;F. Schneider

  • The 2015 Illapel earthquake, central Chile, a type case for a characteristic earthquake?

    F. Tilmann;Y. Zhang;M. Moreno;Joachim Saul

  • Deep burial of Asian continental crust beneath the Pamir imaged with local earthquake tomography

    C. Sippl;B. Schurr;J. Tympel;S. Angiboust

  • Seismicity Structure of the Northern Chile Forearc From >100,000 Double-Difference Relocated Hypocenters

    C. Sippl;B. Schurr;G. Asch;J. Kummerow

  • The 2007 M7.7 Tocopilla northern Chile earthquake sequence: Implications for along-strike and downdip rupture segmentation and megathrust frictional behavior

    B. Schurr;G. Asch;M. Rosenau;R. Wang

  • Zooming into the Hindu Kush slab break-off: A rare glimpse on the terminal stage of subduction

    Sofia-Katerina Kufner;Bernd Schurr;Christian Haberland;Yong Zhang

  • Subduction earthquake deformation associated with 14 November 2007, Mw 7.8 Tocopilla earthquake in Chile: Results from InSAR and aftershocks

    Mahdi Motagh;Mahdi Motagh;Bernd Schurr;Jan Anderssohn;Beatrice Cailleau

  • Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes.

    Jonathan R. Bedford;Marcos Moreno;Zhiguo Deng;Onno Oncken;Onno Oncken

  • The Hindu Kush slab break-off as revealed by deep structure and crustal deformation.

    Sofia Katerina Kufner;Sofia Katerina Kufner;Sofia Katerina Kufner;Najibullah Kakar;Maximiliano Bezada;Wasja Bloch

  • The Crust in the Pamir: Insights from Receiver Functions

    F. M. Schneider;X. Yuan;B. Schurr;James Mechie

  • Seismological Studies of the Central and Southern Andes

    Günter Asch;Bernd Schurr;Mirjam Bohm;Xiaohui Yuan

  • Seismicity and average velocities beneath the Argentine Puna Plateau

    B. Schurr;Günter Asch;Andreas Rietbrock;Rainer Kind

  • Deep seismic structure of the Atacama basin, northern Chile

    B. Schurr;A. Rietbrock

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaohui Yuan
Xiaohui Yuan University of Potsdam
Frederik Tilmann
Frederik Tilmann Freie Universität Berlin
James Mechie
James Mechie University of Potsdam
Lothar Ratschbacher
Lothar Ratschbacher TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Christian Haberland
Christian Haberland University of Potsdam
Andreas Rietbrock
Andreas Rietbrock Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Onno Oncken
Onno Oncken University of Potsdam
Marcos Moreno
Marcos Moreno Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Sergio Barrientos
Sergio Barrientos University of Chile
Rainer Kind
Rainer Kind Freie Universität Berlin

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