Earthquake early warning: Advances, scientific challenges, and societal needs

RM Allen, D Melgar - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Earthquake early warning (EEW) is the delivery of ground shaking alerts or warnings. It is
distinguished from earthquake prediction in that the earthquake has nucleated to provide …

A survey of emergencies management systems in smart cities

DG Costa, JPJ Peixoto, TC Jesus, P Portugal… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid urbanization process in the last century has deeply changed the way we live and
interact with each other. As most people now live in urban areas, cities are experiencing …

Machine learning seismic wave discrimination: Application to earthquake early warning

Z Li, MA Meier, E Hauksson, Z Zhan… - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Early detection of earthquake magnitude based on stacked ensemble model

A Joshi, C Vishnu, CK Mohan - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 2022 - Elsevier
A new machine learning model, named, EEWPEnsembleStack has been developed for
predicting the magnitude of the earthquake from a few seconds of recorded ground motion …

Rapid prediction of earthquake ground shaking intensity using raw waveform data and a convolutional neural network

D Jozinović, A Lomax, I Štajduhar… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This study describes a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based technique to predict
intensity measurements (IMs) of earthquake ground shaking. The input data to the CNN …

The limits of earthquake early warning accuracy and best alerting strategy

SE Minson, AS Baltay, ES Cochran, TC Hanks… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We explore how accurate earthquake early warning (EEW) can be, given our limited ability
to forecast expected shaking even if the earthquake source is known. Because of the strong …

Reliable real‐time seismic signal/noise discrimination with machine learning

MA Meier, ZE Ross, A Ramachandran… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In earthquake early warning (EEW), every sufficiently impulsive signal is potentially the first
evidence for an unfolding large earthquake. More often than not, however, impulsive signals …

ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system performance during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence

AI Chung, MA Meier, J Andrews… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
During July 2019, a sequence of earthquakes, including an M w 6.4 foreshock and an M w
7.1 mainshock, occurred near Ridgecrest, California. ShakeAlert, the US Geological Survey …

Earthquake early warning ShakeAlert 2.0: Public rollout

MD Kohler, DE Smith, J Andrews… - Seismological …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system is designed to automatically identify and
characterize the initiation and rupture evolution of large earthquakes, estimate the intensity …

The limits of earthquake early warning: Timeliness of ground motion estimates

SE Minson, MA Meier, AS Baltay, TC Hanks… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The basic physics of earthquakes is such that strong ground motion cannot be expected
from an earthquake unless the earthquake itself is very close or has grown to be very large …