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Eleonora Rivalta

Eleonora Rivalta

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
4242
World Ranking
6988
National Ranking
505

Overview

Eleonora Rivalta is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and is engaged primarily in research within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans numerous subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Oceanography, Geology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's research topics encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and material science, geophysics and gravity measurements, seismology, and earthquake studies, as well as seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Frequent publication venues for Eleonora Rivalta include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Nature Geoscience

Many recent papers by Rivalta include:

  • Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards, 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Drainage of a deep magma reservoir near Mayotte inferred from seismicity and deformation, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • The build-up and triggers of volcanic eruptions, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Cyclical geothermal unrest as a precursor to Iceland's 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Extreme Curvature of Shallow Magma Pathways Controlled by Competing Stresses: Insights From the 2018 Sierra Negra Eruption, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Eleonora Rivalta's work frequently involves collaboration. Notable co-authors include:

  • Torsten Dahm
  • Simone Cesca
  • Timothy Davis
  • Sebastian Heimann
  • Mehdi Nikkhoo

Best Publications

  • A review of mechanical models of dike propagation: Schools of thought, results and future directions

    Eleonora Rivalta;Eleonora Rivalta;Benoit Taisne;Andrew P Bunger;Richard F Katz

  • Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards

    Bruno Merz;Christian Kuhlicke;Michael Kunz;Massimiliano Pittore

  • Magma compressibility and the missing source for some dike intrusions

    Eleonora Rivalta;Eleonora Rivalta;Paul Segall

  • A quantitative study of the mechanisms governing dike propagation, dike arrest and sill formation

    F. Maccaferri;F. Maccaferri;M. Bonafede;E. Rivalta

  • Drainage of a deep magma reservoir near Mayotte inferred from seismicity and deformation

    Simone Cesca;Jean Letort;Hoby N. T. Razafindrakoto;Sebastian Heimann

  • Buoyancy-driven fracture ascent: Experiments in layered gelatine

    E. Rivalta;M. Böttinger;T. Dahm

  • Off-rift volcanism in rift zones determined by crustal unloading

    Francesco Maccaferri;Eleonora Rivalta;Derek Keir;Valerio Acocella

  • A numerical model of dyke propagation in layered elastic media

    F. Maccaferri;M. Bonafede;E. Rivalta

  • Acceleration of buoyancy-driven fractures and magmatic dikes beneath the free surface

    Eleonora Rivalta;Torsten Dahm

  • The build-up and triggers of volcanic eruptions

    Luca Caricchi;Meredith Townsend;Eleonora Rivalta;Atsuko Namiki

  • How caldera collapse shapes the shallow emplacement and transfer of magma in active volcanoes

    Fabio Corbi;E. Rivalta;V. Pinel;F. Maccaferri

  • Cyclical geothermal unrest as a precursor to Iceland’s 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption

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  • Recommendation for the discrimination of human-related and natural seismicity

    Torsten Dahm;D. Becker;M. Bischoff;Simone Cesca

  • Evidence that coupling to magma chambers controls the volume history and velocity of laterally propagating intrusions

    Eleonora Rivalta;Eleonora Rivalta

  • Stress inversions to forecast magma pathways and eruptive vent location

    E. Rivalta;F. Corbi;L. Passarelli;V. Acocella

  • On tensile cracks close to and across the interface between two welded elastic half-spaces

    Maurizio Bonafede;Eleonora Rivalta

  • The edge dislocation problem in a layered elastic medium

    Eleonora Rivalta;Walter Mangiavillano;Maurizio Bonafede

  • Lava effusion – a slow fuse for paroxysms at Stromboli volcano?

    S. Calvari;L. Spampinato;L. Spampinato;A. Bonaccorso;C. Oppenheimer

  • Experiments of dike‐induced deformation: Insights on the long‐term evolution of divergent plate boundaries

    Daniele Trippanera;Joel Ruch;Joel Ruch;Valerio Acocella;E. Rivalta

  • Aseismic transient driving the swarm-like seismic sequence in the Pollino range, Southern Italy

    Luigi Passarelli;Sebastian Hainzl;Simone Cesca;Francesco Maccaferri

  • Source modelling of the M5–6 Emilia-Romagna, Italy, earthquakes (2012 May 20–29)

    Simone Cesca;Thomas Braun;Francesco Maccaferri;Luigi Passarelli

  • On precisely modelling surface deformation due to interacting magma chambers and dykes

    Karen Pascal;Karen Pascal;Jurgen Neuberg;Eleonora Rivalta

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Dahm
Torsten Dahm University of Potsdam
Valerio Acocella
Valerio Acocella Roma Tre University
Simone Cesca
Simone Cesca University of Potsdam
Sebastian Heimann
Sebastian Heimann University of Potsdam
Virginie Pinel
Virginie Pinel Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Thomas R. Walter
Thomas R. Walter University of Potsdam
Sigurjón Jónsson
Sigurjón Jónsson King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Sebastian Hainzl
Sebastian Hainzl University of Potsdam
Costanza Bonadonna
Costanza Bonadonna University of Geneva
G. D. Hammond
G. D. Hammond University of Glasgow

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