Vladimir Pinsky

Dr. Vladimir Pinsky

Research seismologist (PhD)

Mail: [email protected]

 

Research interests :

  • seismology, automatic detection, location, identification of seismic sources, seismic tomography, earthquake early warning.

Main projects and grants :

• Improved velocity model for enhanced seismic event location using explosion ground-truth data. Min. of energy and Water Resources, 2017 – 2018.
• Seismo-acoustic study in Israel and US 2011 – 2015 BSF
• Interpretation of Seismic Noise Propagating through the Dead Sea Transform 2007-2009 BSF
• Collection of Regional Calibration Data Within the Area Around the Israel Seismic Network. 200 – 2003 CTBTO
• Improvements in Monitoring the CTBT in the Middle East by the Israel Seismic Network 1997-2000 DTRA (USA)

Key publications:

• Pinsky V. 2017. Modelling the future Israel EEWS performance using synthetic catalogue. Geoph. J. Int. 211(1):379–399.DOI:10.1093/gji/ggx282
• Pinsky V., P. Blom, A. Polozov, O. Marcillo, S. Arrowsmith, A. Hofstetter, 2017. Towards an accurate real-time locator of infrasonic sources. J. Seism. On-line 1 - 23. DOI: 10.1007/s10950-017-9670-4
• Pinsky V., 2014. Modeling warning times for the Israel’s earthquake early warning system. Journal of Seismology. 10.1007/s10950-014-9454-z
• Pinsky, V., Meirova, T., Levshin, A. Hofstetter, A., Kraeva, N., Barmin M., 2011. Crustal tomography across the Dead Sea Fault using ambient noise recordings. Journal of Seismology., APR, 2013, 17 2, p385 p397, 13p.

• Pinsky V., S. Horiuchi, 2009. Hypocenter location of mixed events in real-time processing systems. J. seismology. V 14. DOI 10.1007/s10950-009-9152-4. Published on-line.

• Pinsky V. (2006). Using beamforming for the global network location. Phys. Earth and Plan. Interiors 158, 75-83.
• Pinsky V., Y. Gitterman, A. Hofstetter, and A. Shapira, (2006). Robust location of surface explosions by a network of acoustic arrays. Geoph. Res. Letters, vol. 33, L02317, doi:10.1029/2005GL024304.
• Pinsky, V.(1999) An approach to automatic Location of Regional Events. Phys. Earth. & Planet. Inter. 113, pp.293-302.
• Pinsky, V.I., A. Shapira. (1998). Kinematic Multi-station Discriminator Between Local Quarry Blasts and Earthquakes. Geoph. J. Int. Vol. 135 Issue 3, December 1998 p. 975-987
• Tsvang, S.L.,Pinsky, V.I., Husebye,E.S. (1993): Enhanced Seismic Source discrimination .Geophys. J. Int., 112, pp.1-14.
• Kushnir A.F., Lapshin V.M.,Pinsky V.I.,Fyen J. (1990): Statistically optimal event detection using small array data, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am.,vol 80,pp.1934-1947, 1990 Comput. Seism., Vol. 22, EUGG Publ.