Hi welcome to my personal website!

I am a Structural and Earthquake Geologist interested in upper crustal deformation of ancient orogens, in neotectonic regions and in the current earthquake cycle. I am active in various domains of Geology, Seismology, Macroseismology and Geophysics, I love to perform outdoor field work and I am a devoted student coach.

My research focuses on:

(i) linking earthquakes to inherited tectonic structures by applying structural and geophysical techniques; 

(ii) analysing earthquake site effects by H/V Spectral Ratio analysis and ERT;

(iii) Macroseismology: studying the relationship between the shaking intensity distribution of felt earthquakes and the local geology;

(iv) studying the deformation of ancient orogens and neotectonic regions.

As a scientist I consider it as a moral obligation to communicate results to the public by publishing research results in different popularising scientific magazines and report them on social media. I frequently provide relevant earthquake information to the media and public. 

I’m a member of the ESC Working Group in Harmonizing Internet Macroseismology in Europe in which we are working towards harmonizing earthquake intensities gathered in Europe by online "Did you Feel the Earthquake" questionnaires. 

I hope you'll enjoy exploring this website. 

Cheers

Koen

Institutional contact:

Koen Van Noten, PhD

Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB)

Seismology-Gravimetry

Ringlaan 3, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium

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Email: koen.vannoten[at]Seismology.be

Tel: + 32 2 790 29 18

NEWS:

08-11-2023: 40th commemoration of the 1983 Liège earthquake! We revisited all geological and seismological data to present a commemoration day for Belgian researchers and policy makers. Read our story here: https://www.astro.oma.be/en/commemoration-of-the-liege-1983-earthquake/

09-03-2022: New paper! Were the Hainaut earthquakes triggered and induced? Read the Twitter thread: 

Camelbeeck, T., Van Noten, K., Hendrickx , M., Lecocq. T. 2022. The damaging character of shallow 20th century earthquakes in the Hainaut coal area (Belgium). Solid Earth 13, 469-495.
https://se.copernicus.org/articles/13/469/2022/

27-01-2022: New paper published ! On the subsurface of Brussels. Read the Twitter Thread.

Van Noten, K., Devleeschouwer, X., Goffin, C., Meyvis, B., Molron, J., Debacker, T.N. & Lecocq, T. 2022.  Brussels’ bedrock paleorelief from borehole-controlled powerlaws linking polarised H/V resonance frequencies and sediment thickness. Journal of Seismology.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-021-10039-8 

03-07-2020: New Paper from an amazing community effort: 

Lecocq et al. 2020. Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.abd2438 

04-11-2019: New website online on the ESC WG group on Harmonizing Internet Macroseismology in Europe:

http://www.escmacroswg.rm.ingv.it/

01-03-2019: New Paper Published

Van Noten, K., Sintubin, M., 2019. Chapter 9 - Unfolding Veined Fold Limbs to Deduce a Basin’s Prefolding Stress State, in: Billi, A., Fagereng, Å.B.T.-D. (Eds.), Problems and Solutions in Structural Geology and Tectonics. Elsevier, pp. 105–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814048-2.00009-0

01-02-2019: New paper on the Denizli Basin evolution

Van Noten, K., Topal, S., Baykara, M.O., Claes, H., C. Aratman, Özkul, M. & Swennen, R. 2019. Pleistocene-Holocene tectonic reconstruction of the Ballık travertine (Denizli, SW Turkey): (de)formation of large travertine geobodies at intersecting grabens. Journal of Structural Geology 118, 114-134. 

DOI      EarthArXiv Preprint PDF 

Past Institutional details :

Geological Survey of Belgium, 

Jennerstraat 13, 1000 Brussels, Belgium