English
Related papers

Related papers: Probing slow earthquakes with deep learning

200 papers

Terra Seismic can predict most major earthquakes (M6.2 or greater) at least 2 - 5 months before they will strike. Global earthquake prediction is based on determinations of the stressed areas that will start to behave abnormally before…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Oleg Elshin , Andrew A. Tronin

I study a recently proposed statistical model of earthquake dynamics that incorporates aging as a fundamental ingredient. The model is known to generate earthquake sequences that quantitatively reproduce the spatial and temporal clustering…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. A. Jagla

Slow earthquakes differ from regular earthquakes in their slower moment release and size distribution dominated by smaller events. However, the physical origin of these slow earthquake statistics remains controversial. In this work, we…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Yuto Sasaki , Hiroaki Katsuragi

Rapid earthquake magnitude estimation is crucial for effective early warning systems that can save lives and reduce economic damage. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of magnitude classification using only the vertical…

Artificial intelligence has transformed the seismic community with deep learning models (DLMs) that are trained to complete specific tasks within workflows. However, there is still lack of robust evaluation frameworks for evaluating and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Samuel Myren , Nidhi Parikh , Rosalyn Rael , Garrison Flynn , Dave Higdon , Emily Casleton

This paper provides theoretical and practical arguments regarding the possibility of predicting strong and major earthquakes worldwide. Many strong and major earthquakes can be predicted at least two to five months in advance, based on…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Oleg Elshin , Andrew A. Tronin

Satellite images have the potential to detect volcanic deformation prior to eruptions, but while a vast number of images are routinely acquired, only a small percentage contain volcanic deformation events. Manual inspection could miss these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Robert Gabriel Popescu , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Juliet Biggs

To characterize the dynamical features of seismicity as a complex phenomenon, the seismic data is mapped to a growing random graph, which is a small-world scale-free network. Here, hierarchical and mixing properties of such a network are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Sumiyoshi Abe , Norikazu Suzuki

The large volumes of Sentinel-1 data produced over Europe are being used to develop pan-national ground motion services. However, simple analysis techniques like thresholding cannot detect and classify complex deformation signals reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Juliet Biggs , Krisztina Kelevitz , Zahra Sadeghi , Tim Wright , James Thompson , Alin Achim , David Bull

The carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) framework is an essential component in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with its success hinging on the comprehensive knowledge of subsurface geology and geomechanics. Passive seismic…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Hanchen Wang , Yinpeng Chen , Tariq Alkhalifah , Ting Chen , Youzuo Lin , David Alumbaugh

When applied to training deep neural networks, stochastic gradient descent (SGD) often incurs steady progression phases, interrupted by catastrophic episodes in which loss and gradient norm explode. A possible mitigation of such events is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-06 Alice Schoenauer-Sebag , Marc Schoenauer , Michèle Sebag

This paper explores the application of deep learning (DL) techniques to strong motion records for single-station epicenter localization. Often underutilized in seismology-related studies, strong motion records offer a potential wealth of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Melek Türkmen , Sanem Meral , Baris Yilmaz , Melis Cikis , Erdem Akagündüz , Salih Tileylioglu

Seismograms, the fundamental seismic records, have revolutionized earthquake research and monitoring. Recent advancements in deep learning have further enhanced seismic signal processing, leading to even more precise and effective…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-03-08 Sen Li , Xu Yang , Anye Cao , Changbin Wang , Yaoqi Liu , Yapeng Liu , Qiang Niu

Accurate weather prediction is essential for many aspects of life, notably the early warning of extreme weather events such as rainstorms. Short-term predictions of these events rely on forecasts from numerical weather models, in which,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Guoxing Chen , Wei-Chyung Wang

Earthquake catalog declustering is the procedure of separating event clusters from background seismicity, which is an important task in statistical seismology, earthquake forecasting, and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. Several…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Robert Shcherbakov , Sidhanth Kothari

Despite the enormous efforts towards searching for precursors, no precursors have exhibited real predictive power with respect to an earthquake thus far. Seismogenic locked segments that can accumulate adequate strain energy to cause major…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 Chen Hongran , Qin Siqing , Xue Lei , Yang Baicun , Zhang Ke

Bayesian inference applied to microseismic activity monitoring allows the accurate location of microseismic events from recorded seismograms and the estimation of the associated uncertainties. However, the forward modelling of these…

Reconstruction of seismic data with missing traces is a long-standing issue in seismic data processing. In recent years, rank reduction operations are being commonly utilized to overcome this problem, which require the rank of seismic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Qun Liu , Lihua Fu , Meng Zhang

The transition from quasi-static slip growth to dynamic rupture propagation constitutes one possible scenario to describe earthquake nucleation. If this transition is rather well understood for homogeneous faults, how the friction…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-18 Mathias Lebihain , Thibault Roch , Marie Violay , Jean-François Molinari

We introduce a method for identifying weak periodic components in pre-earthquake seismic waveforms by examining the scale-index response of a driven Duffing chaotic oscillator. This nonlinear setup helps detect and classify subtle…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-31 Nazmi Yılmaz