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Identifying the arrival times of seismic P-phases plays a significant role in real-time seismic monitoring, which provides critical guidance for emergency response activities. While considerable research has been conducted on this topic,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Dazhong Shen , Qi Zhang , Tong Xu , Hengshu Zhu , Wenjia Zhao , Zikai Yin , Peilun Zhou , Lihua Fang , Enhong Chen , Hui Xiong

Advanced LIGO and the next generation of ground-based detectors aim to capture many more binary coalescences through improving sensitivity and duty cycle. Earthquakes have always been a limiting factor at low frequency where neither the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Nikhil Mukund , Brian O'Reilly , Surendra Nadh Somala , Sanjit Mitra

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

Tsunami disasters pose a serious and recurring threat to coastal and island communities. When a large earthquake occurs, people are forced to make evacuation decisions under extreme time pressure, often at the same time as the communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Keiya Kawano , Milena Radenkovic

This paper presents e112, a context-aware mobile emergency response application designed to strengthen communication between citizens and authorities during disasters. Building on the ubiquity of smartphones, the system provides SOS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Katerina Ioannidou , Marios D. Dikaiakos , Athena Stassopoulou

Gravitational wave observatories have always been affected by tele-seismic earthquakes leading to a decrease in duty cycle and coincident observation time. In this analysis, we leverage the power of machine learning algorithms and archival…

The possibility of earthquake prediction is one of the key open questions in modern geophysics. We propose an approach based on the analysis of common short-term candidate precursors (2 weeks to 3 months prior to strong earthquake) with the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Yuriy S. Polyakov , Gennadiy V. Ryabinin , Anna B. Solovyeva , Serge F. Timashev

In the presented paper we will focus on the optimal option of network arrangemnet of the VLF / LF EM radiation before the earthquakes. The paper discusses the new possibility of arrangement of VLF / LF network based on certain physical…

The statistic of World Health Organization shows at one year about 287000 women died most of them during and following pregnancy and childbirth in Africa and south Asia. This paper suggests system for serving pregnant women using open…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Ayad Ghany Ismaeel , Nur Gaylan Hamead

This paper is an attempt for arguing the possibility for short time when, where and how Earthquakes prediction. The local when Earthquake prediction is based on the connection between geomagnetic quakes and the next incoming minimum or…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Cht. Mavrodiev

Population aging is affecting many countries, Sweden being one of them, and it may lead to a shortage of caregivers for elderly people in near future. Smart interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things may help elderly to live…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-01-03 David Perez , Suejb Memeti , Sabri Pllana

Seismic waves generated by earthquakes consist of multiple phases that carry critical information about Earth's internal structure as they propagate through heterogeneous media. These phases provide constraints from different regions of the…

Natural disasters can have catastrophic consequences, a poignant example is the series of $7.7$ and $7.6$ magnitude earthquakes that devastated T\"urkiye on February 6, 2023. To limit the damage, it is essential to maintain the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Bilal Karaman , Ilhan Basturk , Sezai Taskin , Ferdi Kara , Engin Zeydan , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Seismic phase picking, which aims to determine the arrival time of P- and S-waves according to seismic waveforms, is fundamental to earthquake monitoring. Generally, manual phase picking is trustworthy, but with the increasing number of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Yuchen Wang , Ruihuan Wang

A preliminary design of inclinometer for real-time monitoring system of soil displacement is proposed. The system is developed using accelerometer sensor with microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device. The main apparatus consists of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-03-10 D. Hanto , B. Widiyatmoko , B. Hermanto , P. Puranto , L. T. Handoko

Smartphones have been shipped with multiple wireless network interfaces in order to meet their diverse communication and networking demands. However, as smartphones increasingly rely on wireless network connections to realize more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-25 Feng Xia , Ching-Hsien Hsu , Xiaojing Liu , Fangwei Ding , Wei Zhang

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly advanced and the latest ones are equipped with many diverse and powerful sensors. These sensors can be used to study different position and orientation of the phone which can help smartphone…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Karthik R , Preetam Satapath , Srivatsa Patnaik , Saurabh Priyadarshi , Rajesh Kumar M

Geoscience and seismology have utilized the most advanced technologies and equipment to monitor seismic events globally from the past few decades. With the enormous amount of data, modern GPU-powered deep learning presents a promising…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Bo Feng , Geoffrey C. Fox

Smartphones sensors are now commonly used by a worldwide audience thanks to their availability, high connectivity, and versatility. Here, we present a methodology to use a collection of smartphones, namely a fleet, as a distributed network…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-05 J. Zhang , N. Mokus , J. Casoli , A. Eddi , S. Perrard

Earthquake nowcasting has been proposed as a means of tracking the change in large earthquake potential in a seismically active area. The method was developed using observable seismic data, in which probabilities of future large earthquakes…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 John B. Rundle , Geoffrey Fox , Andrea Donnellan , Lisa Grant Ludwig