Dr. Magda Patyniak

The interplay of natural hazards and seismicity as the trigger: paleoseismology and tectonic geomorphology

PhD-Thesis: Extreme events against the background of seismic trigger mechanisms: Paleoseismic and tectonic geomorphology in the northern Pamir

My PhD-Project (January 2018 - December 2020) is part of the CaTeNA-project within the CLIENT II program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The main goal of this project is the assessment of natural hazards and geo-risks through better understanding of interdisciplinary processes and coverage of these processes on different time scales.

Related goals are:

• Identification of active faults and estimation of their deformation rates along the central Asian deformation belts through geodesy, (paleo)-seismology, structural geology, cosmogenic nuclide dating and thermochronology.
• Identification of seismically and climatically triggered extreme events in geological archives
• Better understanding of coupled natural hazards and cascading effects, such as e.g. earthquakes, extreme meteorological events and mass movements
• A variable landslide-susceptibility model involving dynamic atmospheric and ground motion data, as well as an improved estimation of the resulting impact on inhabited areas and transport infrastructure
• Direct and efficient communication of the time-varying landslide susceptibility and the associated risk, based on interactive visualization based on dynamic multilingual web GIS platform

CaTeNA - Working Package 3
Focus on most active fault system: Pamir Thrust System (PTS)

• Fault geometry and behaviour
• Earthquake and mass movement history
• Combination of seismic and climatic data for trigger question

catena.geoway.de

Publications

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva,A., Baikulov, S., Williams, A. M., Preusser, F., et al., 2024, Surface ruptureof the 2008 Mw 6.6  Nura earthquake:Triggered flexural‐slip faulting in thePamir‐Tien Shan collision zone. Tectonics, 43, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024TC008360

Schneider, K.P., Hoffmann, J.E., Münker, C., Patyniak, M., Sprung, P., Roerdink, D., Schönberg, D.G. and Kröner, A., 2019. Petrogenetic evolution of metabasalts and metakomatiites of the lower Onverwacht Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt (South Africa). Chemical Geology.

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K.E., Rosenwinkel, S., Korup, O., Preusser, F., Fohlmeister, J., Arrowsmith, J.R. and Strecker, M.R., 2017. Paleoseismic Record of Three Holocene Earthquakes Rupturing the Issyk‐Ata Fault near Bishkek, North KyrgyzstanPaleoseismic Record of Three Holocene Earthquakes Rupturing the Issyk‐Ata Fault near Bishkek. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(6), pp.2721-2737.

Pérez-López, R., Martín-Velázquez, S., Sánchez-Moral, S., Patyniak, M., López-Gutiérrez, J., Cuezva, S., Lario, J., Silva, P.G., Rodríguez-Pascua, M.A. and Giner-Robles, J.L., 2017. New insights on speleoseismology: The geothermal gradient and heat flow values in caves for the study of active faults. Quaternary International.

Conference Contributions

Patyniak, M., Arnous, A., Alvarellos, V., Jagoe, L., Williams, A.M., Colque, J.M.G., Sadud, O.A.R., Preusser, F., Arrowsmith, J.R., Bookhagen, B. and Strecker, M., 2026, May. Quaternary Faulting and Fault-Related Geomorphology along the Orogenic Retro Arc Wedge-Front Structure of the Central Andes: The Mandeyapecua Thrust System, Southeastern Bolivia. EGU General Assembly 2026, Copernicus Meetings. Poster presentation. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-9200

Patyniak, M., Dzhumabaeva, A., Baikulov, S., Williams, A. M., Preusser, F., Landgraf, A., Abdrakhmatov, K. E., Arrowsmith, J R., Strecker, M. R, 2024, October. The surface rupture of the 2008 Mw 6.6 Nura Earthquake: Uncovering secondary, flexural-slip surface rupture in the Tien Shan-Pamir collision zone, South Kyrgyzstan. PATA Days 2024, Los Andes, Chile. Oral presentation. https://doi.org/10.34720/fc3d-mp19 

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Williams, A. M., Baikulov, S., Arrowsmith, R., Abdrakhmatov, K., Strecker, M., 2020, Mai. Seismic Behavior Along a Fault Segment in an Active Continental Collision Zone: New Paleoseismic and Structural Data of the Pamir Frontal Thrust in the Alai Valley, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 22, p. 4599), Vienna, Austria. Display.

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., Williams, A. M., Strecker, M., Arrowsmith, R., 2018, September. The Hidden Past of the Alai Valley: Understanding the Seismic History and Behavior of the Central Pamir Frontal Thrust System through Paleoseismology. 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting, Plam Springs, USA. Poster presentation.  

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Ramón Arrowsmith, J., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., & Strecker, M. 2018, April. Unraveling the Quaternary deformation history of the North Pamir collision zone: New paleoseismological data from the Pamir Frontal Thrust (39.5° N, 72.5° E), Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 20, p. 18736), Vienna, Austria. Poster presentation.

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., Rosenwinkel, S., Strecker, M., Korup, O. and Arrowsmith, R., 2017, November. Paleoseismic Study with Advanced Chronology by using U-Series Dating of Pedogenic Carbonate from Displaced Fluvial Gravel Deposits, Issyk-Ata Fault, North Kyrgyzstan. PATA Days 2017, Blenheim, New Zealand. Oral presentation.

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., Rosenwinkel, S., Strecker, M., Korup, O. and Arrowsmith, R., 2017, September. Paleoseismic Record of Three Holocene Earthquakes Rupturing the Issyk-Ata Fault near Bishkek, North Kyrgyzstan. 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting, Plam Springs, USA. Poster presentation.

Patyniak, M., Landgraf, A., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., Rosenwinkel, S., Strecker, M., Korup, O. and Arrowsmith, R., 2017, April. Boosting the trench: Paleoseimic Record of Three Holocene Earthquakes Rupturing the Issyk-Ata Fault near Bishkek, North Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 19, p. 15740), Vienna, Austria. Oral presentation.