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Earthquakes are major hazards to humans, buildings and infrastructure. Early warning methods aim to provide advance notice of incoming strong shaking to enable preventive action and mitigate seismic risk. Their usefulness depends on…

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A new approach for analyzing waveguide junctions containing conductive cylindrical objects is proposed. The algorithm is based on mode matching technique using local projection functions, which improves the numerical conditioning of the…

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As the capacity of power systems grows, the need for quick and precise short-circuit fault location becomes increasingly vital for ensuring the safe and continuous supply of power. In this paper, we propose a fault location method that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Guanbo Wang , Chijie Zhuang , Jun Deng , Zhicheng Xie

Seismic inversion refers to the process of estimating reservoir rock properties from seismic reflection data. Conventional and machine learning-based inversion workflows usually work in a trace-by-trace fashion on seismic data, utilizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Ahmad Mustafa , Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib

Seismic acoustic impedance plays a crucial role in lithological identification and subsurface structure interpretation. However, due to the inherently ill-posed nature of the inversion problem, directly estimating impedance from post-stack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jie Chen , Hongling Chen , Jinghuai Gao , Chuangji Meng , Tao Yang , XinXin Liang

We propose a local earthquake tomography method that applies a structured regularization technique to determine sharp changes in Earth's seismic velocity structure using arrival time data of direct waves. Our approach focuses on the ability…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-28 Yohta Yamanaka , Sumito Kurata , Keisuke Yano , Fumiyasu Komaki , Takahiro Shiina , Aitaro Kato

Earthquakes can be detected by matching spatial patterns or phase properties from 1-D seismic waves. Current earthquake detection methods, such as waveform correlation and template matching, have difficulty detecting anomalous earthquakes…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Zheng Zhou , Youzuo Lin , Zhongping Zhang , Yue Wu , Paul Johnson

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is today a standard process for the inverse problem of seismic imaging. PDE-constrained optimization is used to determine unknown parameters in a wave equation that represent geophysical properties. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Bjorn Engquist , Yunan Yang

We present the development of extended diffraction tomography, a new approach to the solution of the linear seismic waveform inversion problem. This method has several appealing features, such as the use of arbitrary depth-dependent…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-05-05 R. B. Schlottmann

Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear iterative seismic imaging technique that, by reducing the misfit between recorded and predicted seismic waveforms, can produce detailed estimates of subsurface geophysical properties.…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 Vahid Negahdari , Seyed Reza Moghadasi , Mohammad Reza Razvan

The ``big'' seismic data not only acquired by seismometers but also acquired by vibrometers installed in buildings and infrastructure and accelerometers installed in smartphones will be certainly utilized for seismic research in the near…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Kumi Nakai , Takayuki Nagata , Keigo Yamada , Yuji Saito , Taku Nonomura , Masayuki Kano , Shin-ichi Ito , Hiromichi Nagao

Quantitative imaging of sub-surface Earth's properties in elastic media is performed from Distributed Acoustic Sensing data. A new misfit functional based upon the reciprocity-gap is designed, taking cross-correlations of displacement and…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-11-05 Florian Faucher , Maarten V. de Hoop , Otmar Scherzer

We introduce \textit{SeismoGPT}, a transformer-based model for forecasting three-component seismic waveforms in the context of future gravitational wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope. The model is trained in an autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Waleed Esmail , Alexander Kappes , Stuart Russell , Christine Thomas

Accurate characterization of microseismic events during fluid injection in sedimentary formations is essential to mitigate environmental risks. The source mechanism for microseismic events related to a slip on a fault plane is given by a…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ujjwal Shekhar , Einar Iversen , Florin A. Radu , Inga Berre , Morten Jakobsen

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) uses full seismic records to estimate subsurface velocity structure. This requires a highly nonlinear and nonunique inverse problem to be solved, and Bayesian methods have been used to quantify…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 Xin Zhang , Andrew Curtis

The recent exploitation of natural resources and associated waste water injection in the subsurface have induced many small and moderate earthquakes in the tectonically quiet Central United States. This increase in seismic activity has…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 José Augusto Proença Maia Devienne

Earthquake monitoring is vital for understanding the physics of earthquakes and assessing seismic hazards. A standard monitoring workflow includes the interrelated and interdependent tasks of phase picking, association, and location.…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 Xu Si , Xinming Wu , Zefeng Li , Shenghou Wang , Jun Zhu

A method is presented for determining the vertical direction relative to the axes of seismometers installed in seafloor observatories. The method is based on the linear relationship between the vertical component of seafloor acceleration…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Oleg V. Ponomarev , Sergey V. Kolesov , Michail A. Nosov

Smartphone-based earthquake early warning systems (EEWS) are emerging as a complementary solution to classic EEWS based on expensive scientific-grade instruments. Smartphone-based systems, however, are characterized by a highly dynamic…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-28 Frank Yannick Massoda Tchoussi , Francesco Finazzi