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Focal mechanisms of small earthquakes are critical for characterizing faults and regional stress. P-wave polarities and S/P amplitude ratios (e.g., in HASH) are widely used to determine focal mechanisms for small earthquakes, but…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Miao Zhang

In areas with limited station coverage, earthquake depth constraints are much less accurate than their latitude and longitude. Traditional travel-time-based location methods struggle to constrain depths due to imperfect station distribution…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Wenda Li , Miao Zhang

We present two models for estimating the probabilities of future earthquakes in California, to be tested in the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP). The first, time-independent model, modified from Helmstetter et…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. J. Werner , A. Helmstetter , D. D. Jackson , Y. Y. Kagan

Numerical models are starting to be used for determining the future behaviour of seismic faults and fault networks. Their final goal would be to forecast future large earthquakes. In order to use them for this task, it is necessary to…

Earthquake early warning systems are required to report earthquake locations and magnitudes as quickly as possible before the damaging S wave arrival to mitigate seismic hazards. Deep learning techniques provide potential for extracting…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-02-16 Xiong Zhang , Miao Zhang , Xiao Tian

Earthquakes are commonly estimated using physical seismic stations, however, due to the installation requirements and costs of these stations, global coverage quickly becomes impractical. An efficient and lower-cost alternative is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Daniele Rege Cambrin , Isaac Corley , Paolo Garza , Peyman Najafirad

Microseismic event detection and location are two primary components in microseismic monitoring, which offers us invaluable insights into the subsurface during reservoir stimulation and evolution. Conventional approaches for event detection…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Yuanyuan Yang , Claire Birnie , Tariq Alkhalifah

Scientists mapped the seismic time series into networks by considering the geographical location of events as nodes and establishing links between the nodes with different rules. Applying the successive defined laws to construct the…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Nastaran Lotfi

The hypocentral depth is a key requirement in seismology and earthquake engineering, but it is very difficult to be determined. The current accepted improvement is taking advantage of the depth phases, such as the pP, to constrain this…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Rong Qiang Wei

Earthquake signals are non-stationary in nature and thus in real-time, it is difficult to identify and classify events based on classical approaches like peak ground displacement, peak ground velocity. Even the popular algorithm of STA/LTA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Tonumoy Mukherjee , Chandrani Singh , Prabir Kumar Biswas

This research presents one possible way for imminent prediction of earthquake magnitude, depth and epicenter coordinates by solving the inverse problem using a data acquisition network system for monitoring, archiving and complex analysis…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 S. Cht. Mavrodiev

Documenting the interplay between slow deformation and seismic ruptures is essential to understand the physics of earthquakes nucleation. However, slow deformation is often difficult to detect and characterize. The most pervasive seismic…

Seismic phase association connects earthquake arrival time measurements to their causative sources. Effective association must determine the number of discrete events, their location and origin times, and it must differentiate real arrivals…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Ian W. McBrearty , Gregory C. Beroza

We present the "condensation" method that exploits the heterogeneity of the probability distribution functions (PDF) of event locations to improve the spatial information content of seismic catalogs. The method reduces the size of seismic…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Y. Kamer , G. Ouillon , D. Sornette , J. Woessner

The understanding of long-distance relations between seismic activities has for long been of interest to seismologists and geologists. In this paper we have used data from the world-wide earthquake catalog for the period between 1972 and…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Douglas S. R. Ferreira , Andrés Papa , Ronaldo Menezes

Earthquake Early Warning state of the art systems rely on a network of sensors connected to a fusion center in a client-server paradigm. Instead, we propose moving computation to the edge, with detector nodes that probe the environment and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Enrico Bassetti , Emanuele Panizzi

The ground structure can substantially influence seismic ground motion underscoring the need to develop a ground structure model with sufficient reliability in terms of ground motion estimation for earthquake damage mitigation. While many…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Tsuyoshi Ichimura , Kohei Fujita , Ryota Kusakabe , Hiroyuki Fujiwara , Muneo Hori , Maddegedara Lalith

This paper presents a new technical method for computing calendar time forecasts in a local area for large earthquakes of a target magnitude MT using a count small earthquakes MS < MT in the area, together with the Gutenberg-Richter (GR)…

The detection and rapid characterisation of earthquake parameters such as magnitude are of prime importance in seismology, particularly in applications such as Earthquake Early Warning (EEW). Traditionally, algorithms such as STA/LTA are…

Extending the central concept of recurrence times for a point process to recurrent events in space-time allows us to characterize seismicity as a record breaking process using only spatiotemporal relations among events. Linking record…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Joern Davidsen , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski