학술논문

Machine Learning Seismic Wave Discrimination: Application to Earthquake Early Warning.
Document Type
Article
Source
Geophysical Research Letters. 5/28/2018, Vol. 45 Issue 10, p4773-4779. 7p.
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ISSN
0094-8276
Abstract
Abstract: Performance of earthquake early warning systems suffers from false alerts caused by local impulsive noise from natural or anthropogenic sources. To mitigate this problem, we train a generative adversarial network (GAN) to learn the characteristics of first‐arrival earthquake P waves, using 300,000 waveforms recorded in southern California and Japan. We apply the GAN critic as an automatic feature extractor and train a Random Forest classifier with about 700,000 earthquake and noise waveforms. We show that the discriminator can recognize 99.2% of the earthquake P waves and 98.4% of the noise signals. This state‐of‐the‐art performance is expected to reduce significantly the number of false triggers from local impulsive noise. Our study demonstrates that GANs can discover a compact and effective representation of seismic waves, which has the potential for wide applications in seismology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]