Big data seismology

SJ Arrowsmith, DT Trugman, J MacCarthy… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The discipline of seismology is based on observations of ground motion that are inherently
undersampled in space and time. Our basic understanding of earthquake processes and our …

Machine learning and earthquake forecasting—next steps

GC Beroza, M Segou, S Mostafa Mousavi - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
A new generation of earthquake catalogs developed through supervised machine-learning
illuminates earthquake activity with unprecedented detail. Application of unsupervised …

Machine‐learning‐based high‐resolution earthquake catalog reveals how complex fault structures were activated during the 2016–2017 central Italy sequence

YJ Tan, F Waldhauser, WL Ellsworth… - The Seismic …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The 2016–2017 central Italy seismic sequence occurred on an 80 km long normal‐fault
system. The sequence initiated with the M w 6.0 Amatrice event on 24 August 2016, followed …

Aftershock Forecasting

JL Hardebeck, AL Llenos, AJ Michael… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Aftershocks can compound the impacts of a major earthquake, disrupting recovery efforts
and potentially further damaging weakened buildings and infrastructure. Forecasts of the …

SimplETAS: A Benchmark earthquake forecasting model suitable for operational purposes and seismic hazard analysis

S Mancini, W Marzocchi - Seismological Research …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The epidemic‐type aftershock sequence (ETAS) model is the most effective mathematical
description of the short‐term space–time earthquake clustering. However, the use of such a …

Stress transfer from opening hydraulic fractures controls the distribution of induced seismicity

T Kettlety, JP Verdon, MJ Werner… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the dominant physical processes that cause fault reactivation due to fluid
injection is vital to develop strategies to avoid and mitigate injection‐induced seismicity …

The predictive skills of elastic Coulomb rate‐and‐state aftershock forecasts during the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence

S Mancini, M Segou, MJ Werner… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Operational earthquake forecasting protocols commonly use statistical models for their
recognized ease of implementation and robustness in describing the short‐term …

On the use of high‐resolution and deep‐learning seismic catalogs for short‐term earthquake forecasts: Potential benefits and current limitations

S Mancini, M Segou, MJ Werner… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Enhanced earthquake catalogs provide detailed images of evolving seismic sequences.
Currently, these data sets take some time to be released but will soon become available in …

Embracing data incompleteness for better earthquake forecasting

L Mizrahi, S Nandan, S Wiemer - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We propose two methods to calibrate the parameters of the epidemic‐type aftershock
sequence (ETAS) model based on expectation maximization (EM) while accounting for …

Coulomb stress changes due to the 2021 MS7.4 Maduo Earthquake and expected seismicity rate changes in the surroundings

Y Feng, X Xiong, B Shan, C Liu - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Abstract On May 22nd, 2021, an M S7. 4 earthquake occurred near the Maduo county of the
Qinghai Province, China, within the Bayan Har Block. Seismic activities have been intense …