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Torsten Dahm is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and has a research focus within Earth and Planetary Sciences. They have contributed extensively to the field of Geophysics, with additional work spanning Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research covers a variety of topics including:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies

Dahm's publication record includes papers in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Their recent published papers include:

  • Drainage of a deep magma reservoir near Mayotte inferred from seismicity and deformation, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Cyclical geothermal unrest as a precursor to Iceland's 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Magmatic plumbing and dynamic evolution of the 2021 La Palma eruption, 2023, Nature Communications
  • The 2023 Southeast Türkiye Seismic Sequence: Rupture of a Complex Fault Network, 2023, The Seismic Record
  • A decade-long silent ground subsidence hazard culminating in a metropolitan disaster in Maceió, Brazil, 2021, Scientific Reports

Dahm works collaboratively with various frequent coauthors, including:

  • Simone Cesca
  • Sebastian Heimann
  • Marius Paul Isken
  • Gesa Petersen
  • Pınar Büyükakpınar

Best Publications

  • The November 2017 Mw 5.5 Pohang earthquake: A possible case of induced seismicity in South Korea

    Francesco Grigoli;S Cesca;A.P Rinaldi;A. Manconi

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

    Bernd Schurr;Guenter Asch;Sebastian Hainzl;Jonathan Bedford

  • Current challenges in monitoring, discrimination, and management of induced seismicity related to underground industrial activities: A European perspective

    Francesco Grigoli;Simone Cesca;Enrico Priolo;Antonio Pio Rinaldi

  • Complex hazard cascade culminating in the Anak Krakatau sector collapse.

    Thomas R. Walter;Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi;Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi;Felix M. Schneider;Diego Coppola

  • Gradual caldera collapse at Bárdarbunga volcano, Iceland, regulated by lateral magma outflow

    Magnús T. Gudmundsson;Kristín Jónsdóttir;Andrew Hooper;Eoghan P. Holohan

  • Localization and classification of fracture types in concrete with quantitative acoustic emission measurement techniques

    C. Grosse;H. Reinhardt;T. Dahm

  • Pyrocko - An open-source seismology toolbox and library

    Sebastian Heimann;Marius Kriegerowski;Marius Isken;Simone Cesca

  • 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

  • Numerical simulations of the propagation path and the arrest of fluid‐filled fractures in the Earth

    T. Dahm

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

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

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

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

  • The 2013 September–October seismic sequence offshore Spain: a case of seismicity triggered by gas injection?

    Simone Cesca;Francesco Grigoli;Sebastian Heimann;Álvaro González;Álvaro González

  • Automated procedure for point and kinematic source inversion at regional distances

    Simone Cesca;Simone Cesca;Sebastian Heimann;Sebastian Heimann;Klaus Stammler;Torsten Dahm

  • Discrimination of induced seismicity by full moment tensor inversion and decomposition

    Simone Cesca;Alexander Rohr;Torsten Dahm

  • Buoyancy-driven fracture ascent: Experiments in layered gelatine

    E. Rivalta;M. Böttinger;T. Dahm

  • Complex rupture process of the Mw 7.8, 2016, Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, and its aftershock sequence

    Simone Cesca;Y. Zhang;V. Mouslopoulou;R. Wang

  • Relative moment tensor inversion based on ray theory: theory and synthetic tests

    T. Dahm

  • On the shape and velocity of fluid‐filled fractures in the Earth

    T. Dahm

  • Sinkholes in the city of Hamburg—New urban shear-wave reflection seismic system enables high-resolution imaging of subrosion structures

    Charlotte M. Krawczyk;Ulrich Polom;Stefan Trabs;Torsten Dahm

  • Automated Seismic Event Location by Travel‐Time Stacking: An Application to Mining Induced Seismicity

    Francesco Grigoli;Simone Cesca;Maurizio Vassallo;Torsten Dahm

  • AUTOMATED MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION TO ESTIMATE SOURCE MECHANISMS OF HYDRAULICALLY INDUCED MICRO-SEISMICITY IN SALT ROCK

    T. Dahm;G. Manthei;J. Eisenblätter

  • Grond : a probabilistic earthquake source inversion framework

    Sebastian Heimann;Marius Isken;Daniela Kühn;H. Sudhaus

Frequent Co-Authors

Simone Cesca
Simone Cesca University of Potsdam
Sebastian Heimann
Sebastian Heimann University of Potsdam
Sebastian Hainzl
Sebastian Hainzl University of Potsdam
Eleonora Rivalta
Eleonora Rivalta Universität Hamburg
Frederik Tilmann
Frederik Tilmann Freie Universität Berlin
Thomas R. Walter
Thomas R. Walter University of Potsdam
Arno Zang
Arno Zang University of Potsdam
Rongjiang Wang
Rongjiang Wang Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Matthias Ohrnberger
Matthias Ohrnberger University of Potsdam
Stefan Wiemer
Stefan Wiemer Swiss Seismological Service

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