Staff profiles
Matt GerstenbergerSeismologist
Qualifications
- BSc, Geophysics
- MSc, Geophysics
- PhD, Seismology
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Earthquake Forecasting Methodologies
- Geophysics: Real-time seismological monitoring
- Geophysics: Real-time seismological analysis
- Geophysics: Applications of statistics
- Geophysics: Long-range forecasting
- Geophysics: Seismic hazard models
- Geophysics: Hazard and risk assessment
- Geophysics: Earthquake hazard modelling
- Geophysics: Earthquake loss modelling
- Geology: CO2 sequestration
- Geophysics: Probabilist hazard and risk
- Geophysics: CO2 Sequestration Risk Assessment
- Geophysics: Time Varying Hazard
Major Publications
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- Applicability of the Gutenberg-Richter relation for major active faults in New Zealand, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 108(2): p. 718-728. DOI: 10.1785/0120160257. p. 718-728
- Multiplicative earthquake likelihood models incorporating strain rates, Geophysical Journal International 208(3): p. 1764-1774. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw486. p. 1764-1774
- A hybrid time-dependent probabilistic seismic-hazard model for Canterbury, New Zealand, Seismological Research Letters 87(6): p. 1311-1318. DOI: 10.1785/0220160084. p. 1311-1318
- Preface to the focus section on the joint JapanTaiwanNew Zealand national seismic hazard model collaboration, Seismological Research Letters 87(6): p. 1236-1239. DOI: 10.1785/0220160166. p. 1236-1239
- A Bayesian network and structured expert elicitation for Otway Stage 2C : detection of injected CO2 in a saline aquifer, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 51: p. 317-329. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.05.011. p. 317-329
- Retrospective tests of hybrid operational earthquake forecasting models for Canterbury, Geophysical Journal International 204(1): p. 440-456. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv447. p. 440-456
- Bi-directional risk assessment in carbon capture and storage with Bayesian Networks, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 35: p. 150-159. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.01.010. p. 150-159
- Operational earthquake forecasting can enhance earthquake preparedness, Seismological Research Letters 85(5): p. 955-959. DOI: 10.1785/0220140143. p. 955-959
- Seismic hazard modeling for the recovery of Christchurch, New Zealand, Earthquake Spectra 30(1): p. 17-29. DOI: 10.1193/021913EQS037M. p. 17-29
- National seismic hazard model for New Zealand : 2010 update, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 102(4): p. 1514-1542. DOI: 10.1785/0120110170. p. 1514-1542
- Probabilistic relationships between ground-motion parameters and modified mercalli intensity in California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 102(1): p. 204-221. DOI: 10.1785/0120110156. p. 204-221
- Probabilistic assessment of liquefaction potential for Christchurch in the next 50 years Lower Hutt: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2011/15 25 p.
- Large apparent stresses from the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, Seismological Research Letters 82(6): p, 833-838. DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.82.6.833. p, 833-838
- Update of the Z-factor for Christchurch considering earthquake clustering following the Darfield earthquake Lower Hutt: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2011/29 20 p.
- New Zealand Earthquake Forecast Testing Centre, Pure and Applied Geophysics 167(8/9): p. 877-892. DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0082-4. p. 877-892
- Ground motion-based testing of seismic hazard models in New Zealand, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 100(4): p. 1407-1414. DOI: 10.1785/0120090336. p. 1407-1414
- Opportunities for underground geological storage of CO2 in New Zealand : report CCS-08/10, risk assessment methodologies DOI: 10.21420/TGJJ-4451. Lower Hutt: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2009/63 74 p.
- Seismic hazard of the Canterbury region, New Zealand : new earthquake source model and methodology, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 41(2): p. 51-67. DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.41.2.51-67. p. 51-67
- Testing and development of earthquake forecasting models GNS Science consultancy report 2008/70 1 v. (various pagings)
- State of earthquake forecasting in New Zealand, Proceedings of the 2008 RMS Science Symposium : advances in earthquake forecasting, 23 January 2008, New York : p. 34-35 (paper 6.5). p. 34-35 (paper 6.5)
- A probabilistic relationship between ground shaking parameters and MMI based on felt report data, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering : performance by design, can we predict it? : conference proceedings, Palmerston North, 30 March-1 April 2007 : paper 34. paper 34
- Short term aftershock probabilities : case studies in California, Seismological Research Letters 78(1): p. 66-77. p. 66-77
- RELM testing center, Seismological Research Letters 78(1): p. 30-36. p. 30-36
- Earthquake likelihood model testing, Seismological Research Letters 78(1): p. 17-29. p. 17-29
- Real-time forecasts of tomorrow's earthquakes in California, Nature 435(7040): p. 328-331. p. 328-331
- Real-time forecasts of tomorrow's earthquakes in California : a new mapping tool Denver, Colo.: US Geological Survey. Open-file report / US Geological Survey 2004-1390 39 p.
- Properties of the aftershock sequence of the 1999, MW 7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake : implications for aftershock hazard, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 92(4): p. 12271240. p. 12271240
- A systematic test of the hypothesis that the b value varies with depth in California, Geophysical Research Letters 28(1): p. 57-60. p. 57-60