Born February 17, 1973,
in Auxerre, France
Seismologist
CEA, DIF, DASE/LDG/LSGO
91297 Arpajon - FRANCE
Ph. 00 33 1 69 26 61 43 / 42 00 (secr.)
Fax 00 33 1 69 26 71 30
| Bruno
HERNANDEZ
Born February 17, 1973,
Seismologist |
|
Laboratoire de Détection et de Géophysique
CEA, DIF, DASE/LDG/LSGO 91297 Arpajon - FRANCE Ph. 00 33 1 69 26 61 43 / 42 00 (secr.) Fax 00 33 1 69 26 71 30 |
Education
2000 : Ph.D. in Seismology, French Nuclear Safety Institute and University Grenoble I, France.
1991-1996 : Studies equivalent to M.Sc.
in Geophysics, University Grenoble I, France.
1996 : ”Magistère”,
Physics.
1996 : "DEA", Geophysics
option Seismology.
1995 : "Maîtrise",
Physics option Geophysics.
1994 : "Licence", Physics
option Geophysics.
1993 : "DEUG A", Mathematics
and Physics option Geosciences.
1991 : High School diploma in science "Baccalauréat", Auxerre, France.
Research
2002-now : Research areas :
- Seismic source imaging (joint or separate inversions of macroseismic, geodetic, GPS, DInSAR, seismological, velocimetric, accelerometric, and other data).
- Seismic hazard assessment (paleoseismicity, historical and instrumental seismicity, empirical prediction of strong-motion and broadband seismic motions, [0.01-40.0 Hz], GMPEs, etc.).
- Site effects (variability due to the interface between the crust and the atmosphere, topography, geology, and the 3-D geometry of subsurface soil layers, etc.).
- Waves emitted by a meteorite (infrasound acoustic waves originating from the bolide's Mach cone and seismic waves originating from the impact at the meteorite crater, etc.).
- Rapid seismic alerts, 4-D localization of the hypocenter (latitude, longitude, depth, and time of origin of the earthquake's hypocenter) and determination of the magnitude (Ml, Mw, etc.) followed by the
seismic moment tensor.
- Tsunami alerts in the Western Mediterranean and the Northeast Atlantic (CENALT: National Tsunami Warning Center). Calculation of arrival times, estimation of tsunami amplitudes on the open ocean, and inventory of historical tsunamis and paleotsunamis.
I am a member of the Scientific Committee of the GEOSCOPE global broadband seismological network.
I am a member of the Executive Committee of the Permanent Broadband Network (I represent the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission - CEA - a partner of the RLBP - Epos-France).
I am a co-lead of the national seismic catalog within the Thematic Transversal Action on Seismicity (ATTS), attached to the Seismology thematic group of Epos-France. For each event in the multi-origin bulletin, the catalog contains the solution considered the most relevant. It is the reference catalog for national seismicity and is intended for all stakeholders concerned with this seismicity.
2000-2002 : Oaxaca earthquake, Mexico, 1999 (strong ground motion inversion in frequency domain).
1999-2002 : Chamoli earthquake, India, 1999 (source geometry, inversion, accelerograms, tectonics).
1998-2003 : Umbria-Marche sequence, Italy, 1997 (Seismic sources, sequence, SAR, GPS, strong motions).
1995-1999 : Landers earthquake, California, 1992 (source, kinematic inversion, geodetic and sismological data).
1994-1995 : Snow cover in the French Alps (metamorphism model, Landsat TM images, avalanche forecasting).
1994 : Wave propagation in Mexico city (local network, data processing, time correction, site effects).
1993-1994 : Magnetic properties of monoclinic pyrrhotite Fe7S8 4c, (radiocristallography, geomagnetism).
Publications
Teaching
1999 and 2000 : Lecture in seismology at post-graduate level (equivalent to an engineer’s degree in geological engineering), Faculty of Sciences, Orsay, University Paris XI.
Languages
French : native language.
English : read, written, spoken.
Spanish : read, written, spoken. (nivel 4, UNAM)
Computing
Systems : UNIX, DOS, Windows.
Programs : FORTRAN , PASCAL, C.
Softwares : Word, Excel, Power Point, Lotus, Matlab, GMT, LaTeX, SAC, pql.
GIS : ArcView, ArcInfo.
Societies
Young geoscientists from 1984 to 1990 (Club des Jeunes Naturalistes d’Auxerre (CJNA); Paul Bert Museum, Auxerre).
American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 1997.
European Geophysical Society (EGS) since 1998.
French association for earthquake engineering (Association Française du Génie Parasismique (AFPS)) since 1998.
Field experiments
1995 : Geophysical surveying in France (vallée du Grésivaudan) gravimetry measurements, land levelling and reflection shooting.
1999 : Dense array measurements of ambient vibrations in the Grenoble basin to study local Site effects (Global Positioning System for the precise station location, seismic network).
2001 : Installation of a temporal seismic network in Chiapas, Mexico (seismic network).
2001 : Geodetic deformation of the Guerrero state, Mexico (Global Positioning System, tiltmeters).
Hobbies
Philately, ski, ride and walk in the mountain, gardening.