Attention: Please report any felt earthquake
here and choose the appropriate language, thank you!.
     Achtung: Bitte melden Sie uns verspürte Erdbeben
     hier und wählen Sie dort die Sprache, danke!


Urs KRADOLFER, Dr.
 
Swiss Seismological Service
NO F 69.2
Sonneggstr. 5
CH-8092 Zurich
Switzerland
         
 
Phone: +41-44-633-2656
Secretariat: +41-44-633-2605
Fax: +41-44-633-1065
         
email
Urs.Kradolfer
Please note: E-mails to me are scanned by a pretty strict spamfilter. By-pass the spamfilter by adding the pass-/key-word     zeugma     anywhere in the Subject-field of your e-mail - with this, your e-mail will get quickly to me, independent of its contents.


Responsibilities

- Deputy director of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) - together with the other Acting Directors.
- Head of the section Verification of Nuclear Explosions at the SED.
- Developper and maintainer of the following selected software products:
    * AutoDRM   - Automated Data Exchange: Publication
    * Waves4U   - Automated Data Exchange: Publication
    * RedPuma   - Alert system of the SED
    * picoFirewall   - A firewall for Linux systems
    * picoFirescan   - A firewall log analyzer
    * Salander and SalanderMaps   - Detect felt earthquakes through data mining
- Former research interests: Seismic Tomography
    * PhD Thesis: Abstract - Full Thesis
    * Abstract of one of the more important publications
- Diploma Thesis (Diplomarbeit): Magnitudenkalibrierung von Erdbebenstationen in der Schweiz


Vorlesungen / Lectures: - "Angewandte Informatik in der Geophysik" (WS) (1994-2006) - Further information
  - "Angewandte Erdbebenseismologie" (SS) (1999-2006) - Further Information (access from ETH sites only)
  - "Beobachungsnetze (Praktikum)" (WS) (2002-2005?)
  - "Dynamische Erde I" (HS) (2008-)
  - "Geophysikalisches Feldpraktikum" (FS) (2009-) - Further Information

Encrypted E-Mails

Below you find information about my two public keys. You may use either one of them, when sending encrypted e-mails or documents to me. In order to keep privacy on the internet, encrypted and signed e-mails are preferred.
Public Key No. 1:
E-Mail: Urs.Kradolfer
Key: 1024D/BB32442F (sub: 2048g/DC10002B)
Key fingerprint = 467A 72B3 BBCF E8F4 9A8E 335D E582 EEAA BB32 442F
Public Key: on http://pgp.mit.edu
Public Key with signatures: on http://pgp.mit.edu
Public Key No. 2:
E-Mail: Urs
Key: 1024D/928B4C37 (sub: 2048g/DFCD7D72)
Key fingerprint = 821A EEBA 4B35 125E 15AB 5780 3EB9 D016 928B 4C37
Public Key: on http://pgp.mit.edu
Public Key with signatures: on http://pgp.mit.edu

You may also use any other of the public key servers (such as http://wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net or others).

Enter your key below and find out, how 'close' we are:

your key id :

- Statistics about any key: http://t-butter.de/gpg.php
- Pathfinder and statistics: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jc/wotsap/search.html
- Biglumber: Find people willing to sign a key: https://www.biglumber.com/

For further information, I recommend the very comprehensive web pages of Patrick Feisthammel at http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/pgp.en.html (English) or http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/pgp.de.html (in German).         There is a very short introduction for this topic I wrote some time ago.


Linux
tux For a few years I am experimenting with Linux on both our office and private PCs. While for a few years having used SuSE Linux, I have now converted to Debian Linux (Sarge, the current stable version). See the linux page, if you are interested. tux-dance

Computer Security

Some information presented at my talk entitled "Kill or get killed - Computer security today" are given on a special computer security webpage.


Private Stuff

Some people asked me to include some private information on this web-page... Well, here is a picture of the main task of Caroline and myself (picture from May 1998). For more information, see our private pages at www.kradolfer.net

Our current problems with / unsere momentanen Probleme mit Orange and / und Habbo Hotel...
Our experience and problem with the / unsere Erfahrungen und Probleme mit der Baloise / Basler Versicherung...

Gesunde und schöne Zähne: Dentalhygienepraxis zahntastisch in Zürich-Oerlikon zahntastisch.


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Last Update: 24Nov2008