Selected Publications

                                                                 

2012 Klose, C.D., Mechanical and statistical evidence of the causality of human-made mass shifts    
        
on the Earth’s upper crust and the occurrence of earthquakes, Journal of Seismology 
        
doi:10.1007/s10950-012-9321-8

2012 Dahm, T., D. Becker, M. Bischoff, S. Cesca, B. Dost, R. Fritschen, S. Hainzl, C. D. Klose et al.    
        
Recommendation for the discrimination of human-related and natural seismicity, Journal of Seismology 
        
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.050

2011  Klose, C.D., Evidence for higher tropical storm risks in Haiti due to increasing population density
         
in hazard prone urban areas, Environmental Research Letters 6 044020 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044020.

2011  Klose, C.D., Evidence for anthropogenic surface loading as trigger mechanism 
         
of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Environmental Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s12665-011-1355-7;                                                       or at arXiv Physics-Geophysics:1007.2155 >>

2010  Klose, C.D., Human-triggered Earthquakes and Their Impacts on Human Security, Achieving  
         Environmental Security: Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare, In: P.H. Liotta et al. (eds.),   
         NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics, vol. 69., 13-19.   
         doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-579-2-13 (download at >>) 

2010  Klose, C.D., Webersik, C., Long-term impacts of tropical storms and earthquakes on human
         
growth in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Nature Precedings doi.org/10.1038/npre.2011.5981.1

2010  T. Dahm, S. Hainzl, D. Becker, M. Bischoff, S. Cesca, B. Dost, R. Fritschen, D. Kühn, S. Lasocki,
         
C. D. Klose,   Th. Meier, M. Ohrnberger, E. Rivalta, S. Shapiro, U. Wegler, How to discriminate 
         
induced, triggered and natural seismicity?, In: Induced Seismicity, European Center for
         
Geodynamics and Seismology, Workshopon November 15-17, 2010.

2008 Klose, C.D., Reply to Comments on: Geomechanical modeling of the nucleation process    
       
of Australia's 1989 Newcastle earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269(1-2), 
       
303-307, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.050

2008  Klose, C.D., Reply to Comments on: Geomechanical modeling of the nucleation process     
         
of Australia's 1989 Newcastle earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269(1-2), 

2007  Klose, C.D., Mine Water Discharge and Flooding: A Cause of Severe    
         Earthquakes, Mine Water and the Environment 26(3), 172-180,
         
doi 10.1007/s10230-007-0006-4

2007  Klose, C.D. and L. Seeber, Shallow Seismicity in Stable Continental Regions 
         Seismological Research Letters 76(5), 554-562.

2007  Klose, C.D., Health risk analysis of volcanic SO2 hazard on Vulcano Island 
         (Italy), Natural Hazards,43(3), 303-317,
doi:10.1007/s11069-007-9115-4

2007  Klose, C.D., Geomechanical modeling of the nucleation process of
         Australia's 1989
Newcastle earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science
         Letters
256, 547-553, doi:10.1016/j.epls.2007.02.009

2007 Klose, C.D., S. Loew, R. Giese, G. Borm, Spatial predictions of geological
        rock mass properties based on in-situ interpretations of multi-dimensional
        seismic data. Engineering Geology 93(3-4), 99-116.
        doi:10.1016/j.enggeo.2007.06.001

2006  Klose, C.D., Self-Organising Maps for Geoscientific Data Analysis:    
         Geological Interpretation of Multi-dimensional Geophysical Data,    
         Computational Geosciences
10, 265-277,
         doi:10.1007/s10596-006-9022-x

2005  Klose, C.D., Seo, S., and Obermayer, K., A New Clustering Approach for    
         Partiontioning Directional Data, IJRMMS 42, 315-321,
         doi:10.1016/j.ijrmms.2004.08.011

2002  Klose, C.D., Fuzzy rule-based expert system for short-range seismic
         prediction, Computers & Geosciences 28, 377-386, 
         10.1016/S0098-3004(01)00054-1



Books and Book Chapters

2010  Klose, C.D.,"Quando i terremoti sono causati dall’uomo: un rischio globale" in scientific Atlas
         Future of the Earth “Ecosphere” (UTET – De Agostini, Turin, 2010). (download at >>)



Conferences & Meetings (Selection)

Klose, C.D., Haiti's adaptation practices to tropical storm hazards between 1850-2010, AAG Meet. April. 2011 (Lecture)

Klose, C.D., L. Seeber, K. Jacob, Incorporating human-triggered earthquake risks into energy and water policies, AGU Fall Meet. Dec. 12-18 2010 NH. (Lecture)

Liotta, P. and C.D. Klose, Managing uncertainties of hazard risks – adaptation strategies to sustain human security, AGU Fall Meet. Dec. 12-18 2010 PA. (Lecture)

Webersik, C. and Klose, C.D. (2010), Another Easter Island? Climate change, human insecurity and politics in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Climate Change and Security, 250th Anniversary Conference, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, June 21-24 2010, Trondheim, Norway.

Klose, C.D. and Webersik, C., (2010), Geohazards and their impacts on the political stability in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 2010 Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 2010 -- Washington, DC .

Klose, C.D., (2009), On to what extent stresses resulting from the earth's surface trigger earthquakes, AGU Fall Meet. S54A-08S54A-08. (Lecture)

Klose, C.D., (2009), Meteorological Hazards, Sustainable Development, And Political Stability: A Comparative Study For Haiti And The Dominican Republic between 1850 and 2007, International Studies Association Annual Convention "Exploring the Past, Anticipating the Future", New York, February 15-18 2009 (Lecture)

Klose, C.D. and C. Webersik (2009), Assessing The Inter-Relationship Between Geohazards, Sustainable Development, And Political Stability: A Comparative Study For Haiti And The Dominican Republic. 7th International Science Conference on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Bonn (Germany), 26th-30th April 2009 (accepted as Lecture).

Klose, C.D., (2008), The 2008 M7.9 Wenchuan earthquake - Result of Local and Abnormal Mass Imbalances?, EOS Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U21C-08. (Lecture)

Klose, C.D. and C. Webersik (2008), Understanding socio-economic impacts of geohazards aided by cyber-enabled systems, EOS Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PA13B-1348 . (Poster)

Klose, C.D. (2008), CCS Optimization by AI Aided Geomechanical Modeling and Seismic Monitoring, Seventh Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 5 - 8, 2008

Klose, C.D., (2007), Coastal land loss and gain as potential earthquake trigger mechanism in SCRs, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T51D-0759. (Poster)

Klose, C.D. (2007),  Risk Analysis of Nondeterministic GeoHazards, Risk 007: Agents of Analysis, Society For Risk Analysis Annual Meeting 2007, San Antonio, December 9-12, 2007

Klose, C.D. (2007),  CO2 Injection-triggered Earthquakes and Policy Implications for Sustainable Development, Sixth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 7 - 10, 2007

Klose, C.D., (2006), Scientific, Engineering, and Financial Factors of the 1989 Human-Triggered Newcastle Earthquake in Australia, EOS Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC44A-01. (Lecture)

Klose, C.D., (2006), Geoengineering Activities, Elasto-static Response of the Continental Crust, and Interpretation of its Complexity, November 2006 Bay Area Geophysical Society Meeting. (Lecture)

Klose, C.D., (2006). CO2 Long-Term Underground Storage: U.S. Safety Maps and Regulation Standards for Injection-Triggered Earthquakes, U.S. Department of Energy (National Energy Technology Laboratory), November 6, 2006, Pittsburgh, USA. (Lecture)

Klose, C.D., (2006). First Global Catalog of Human-Triggered Earthquakes (Status Quo 2005). Meeting of the Seismological Society of America Eastern Section, October 1-4, 2006, Ottawa, Canada. ( Lecture)

Klose, C.D., (2006). Human-Made Earthquakes - A Serious Geo-Economic Factor, EGEE’06 Conference, September 5-8, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland. (Lecture)

Klose, C.D., (2006). Human-triggered earthquakes and sustainable development of urban regions, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Management of Urban Earthquake Risk in Central Asian and Caucasian Countries, Istanbul, May 15-19, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey. (Lecture)

Klose, C.D., (2006). Man-made earthquakes and the need of accurate site characterizations for CO2 geological storage, Proc. CO2SC International Symposium 2006, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, March 20-22, pp 221-223. (Poster)

Klose, C.D. and Seeber, L., (2005). Shallow Seismicity in Stable Continental Regions (SCRs): Implications for Earthquake Hazards, EOS Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S43D-06. (Lecture)