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Toward global earthquake early warning with the MyShake smartphone seismic network; Part 2, Understanding MyShake performance around the world
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
Seismological Research Letters. 91(4):2218-2233
Subject
19|Seismology
aftershocks
algorithms
Antilles
California
Caribbean region
earthquakes
epicenters
geologic hazards
global
Greater Antilles
Haiti
Hispaniola
magnitude
MyShake
natural hazards
simulation
Southern California
United States
West Indies
Language
English
ISSN
0895-0695
Abstract
The MyShake project aims to build a global smartphone seismic network to facilitate large-scale earthquake early warning (EEW) and other applications by leveraging the power of crowdsourcing. The MyShake mobile application first detects earthquake shaking on a single phone. The earthquake is then confirmed on the MyShake servers using a "network detection" algorithm that is activated by multiple single-phone detections. In part two of this two-article series, we report the first-order performance of MyShake's EEW capability in various selected locations around the world. Because of the present sparseness of the MyShake network in most parts of the world, we use our simulation platform to understand and evaluate the system's performance in various tectonic settings. We assume that 0.1% of the population in each region has the MyShake mobile application installed on their smartphone and use historical earthquakes from the last 20 yr to simulate triggering scenarios with different network configurations in various regions. Then, we run the detection algorithm with these simulated triggers to understand the performance of the system. The system performs best in regions featuring high population densities and onshore, upper crustal earthquakes M