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Grzegorz Kwiatek is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Geophysics. Their work spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence applications, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Engineering. The core of their research centers on earthquake and tectonic studies, as well as seismic phenomena.

They have published numerous papers, frequently collaborating with colleagues such as Georg Dresen, Marco Bohnhoff, Patricia Martínez-Garzón, Lei Wang, and Thomas Goebel. Their collaborative network highlights a strong engagement with researchers specializing in earthquake physics and related geophysical processes.

Kwiatek has published in various scientific journals, with multiple contributions in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Seismological Research Letters

Their recent significant papers include:

  • Laboratory Study on Fluid-Induced Fault Slip Behavior: The Role of Fluid Pressurization Rate, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Seismic and Aseismic Preparatory Processes Before Large Stick-Slip Failure, 2020, Pure and Applied Geophysics
  • Seismic Moment Evolution During Hydraulic Stimulations, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Injection-Induced Seismic Moment Release and Laboratory Fault Slip: Implications for Fluid-Induced Seismicity, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • An open data infrastructure for the study of anthropogenic hazards linked to georesource exploitation, 2020, Scientific Data

The topics covered by Kwiatek's work reflect a focus on seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and rock mechanics and modeling. Their research addresses practical and theoretical aspects of seismic activity, contributing to earthquake detection and analysis as well as understanding physical processes governing seismicity.

Main topics of their research include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling

Best Publications

  • Slip tendency analysis, fault reactivation potential and induced seismicity in a deep geothermal reservoir

    Inga Moeck;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Günter Zimmermann

  • Source Parameters of Picoseismicity Recorded at Mponeng Deep Gold Mine, South Africa: Implications for Scaling Relations

    G. Kwiatek;K. Plenkers;G. Dresen

  • Controlling fluid-induced seismicity during a 6.1-km-deep geothermal stimulation in Finland

    Grzegorz Kwiatek;Tero Saarno;Thomas Ader;Felix Bluemle

  • MSATSI: A MATLAB Package for Stress Inversion Combining Solid Classic Methodology, a New Simplified User‐Handling, and a Visualization Tool

    Patricia Martínez‐Garzón;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Michèle Ickrath;Marco Bohnhoff

  • What allows seismic events to grow big?: Insights from b-value and fault roughness analysis in laboratory stick-slip experiments

    Thomas H.W. Goebel;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Thorsten W. Becker;Emily E. Brodsky

  • Hydraulic fracture monitoring in hard rock at 410 m depth with an advanced fluid-injection protocol and extensive sensor array

    Arno Zang;Ove Stephansson;Leif Stenberg;Katrin Plenkers

  • Spatiotemporal changes, faulting regimes, and source parameters of induced seismicity: A case study from The Geysers geothermal field

    Patricia Martínez-Garzón;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Hiroki Sone;Marco Bohnhoff;Marco Bohnhoff

  • First field application of cyclic soft stimulation at the Pohang Enhanced Geothermal System site in Korea

    Hannes Hofmann;Günter Zimmermann;Marton Farkas;Ernst Huenges

  • Stress tensor changes related to fluid injection at The Geysers geothermal field, California

    Patricia Martínez-Garzón;Marco Bohnhoff;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Georg Dresen

  • Seismic moment tensor and b value variations over successive seismic cycles in laboratory stick‐slip experiments

    Grzegorz Kwiatek;T. H. W. Goebel;Georg Dresen

  • Laboratory study on fluid‐induced fault slip behavior: The role of fluid pressurization rate

    Lei Wang;Lei Wang;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Erik Rybacki;Audrey Bonnelye

  • HybridMT: A MATLAB/Shell Environment Package for Seismic Moment Tensor Inversion and Refinement

    Grzegorz Kwiatek;Patricia Martínez‐Garzón;Marco Bohnhoff

  • Effects of long‐term fluid injection on induced seismicity parameters and maximum magnitude in northwestern part of The Geysers geothermal field

    Grzegorz Kwiatek;Patricia Martínez-Garzón;Georg Dresen;Marco Bohnhoff

  • High-resolution analysis of seismicity induced at Berlín geothermal field, El Salvador

    G. Kwiatek;F. Bulut;M. Bohnhoff;G. Dresen

  • Frequency-Magnitude Characteristics Down to Magnitude -4.4 for Induced Seismicity Recorded at Mponeng Gold Mine, South Africa

    G. Kwiatek;K. Plenkers;M. Nakatani;Y. Yabe

  • Assessment of P and S wave energy radiated from very small shear-tensile seismic events in a deep South African mine

    Grzegorz Kwiatek;Yehuda Ben-Zion

  • Seismic and Aseismic Preparatory Processes Before Large Stick–Slip Failure

    Georg Dresen;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Thomas Goebel;Yehuda Ben-Zion

  • A refined methodology for stress inversions of earthquake focal mechanisms

    Patricia Martínez-Garzón;Yehuda Ben-Zion;Niloufar Abolfathian;Grzegorz Kwiatek

  • Volumetric components in the earthquake source related to fluid injection and stress state

    Patricia Martínez-Garzón;Grzegorz Kwiatek;Marco Bohnhoff;Georg Dresen

  • An improved method for seismic moment tensor inversion of acoustic emissions through assessment of sensor coupling and sensitivity to incidence angle

    Grzegorz Kwiatek;Elli Maria Charalampidou;Georg Dresen;Sergei Stanchits

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Bohnhoff
Marco Bohnhoff Freie Universität Berlin
Georg Dresen
Georg Dresen University of Potsdam
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Yehuda Ben-Zion University of Southern California
Peter Malin
Peter Malin University of Auckland
Arno Zang
Arno Zang University of Potsdam
Jean Schmittbuhl
Jean Schmittbuhl University of Strasbourg
Václav Vavryčuk
Václav Vavryčuk Czech Academy of Sciences
Günter Zimmermann
Günter Zimmermann Technical University of Berlin
Gilberto Saccorotti
Gilberto Saccorotti National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Oliver Heidbach
Oliver Heidbach University of Potsdam

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