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 …

Earthquake early warning: Recent advances and perspectives

G Cremen, C Galasso - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Earthquake early warning (EEW) is a relatively new strategy for reducing disaster risk and
increasing resilience to seismic hazard in urban settings. EEW systems provide real-time …

Physical applications of GPS geodesy: A review

Y Bock, D Melgar - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesy, the oldest science, has become an important discipline in the geosciences, in
large part by enhancing Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities over the last 35 years …

The complex dynamics of earthquake fault systems: New approaches to forecasting and nowcasting of earthquakes

JB Rundle, S Stein, A Donnellan… - Reports on progress …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Charles Richter's observation that'only fools and charlatans predict earthquakes,'reflects the
fact that despite more than 100 years of effort, seismologists remain unable to do so with …

Instantaneous tracking of earthquake growth with elastogravity signals

A Licciardi, Q Bletery, B Rouet-Leduc, JP Ampuero… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid and reliable estimation of large earthquake magnitude (above 8) is key to mitigating
the risks associated with strong shaking and tsunamis. Standard early warning systems …

Kinematic rupture scenarios and synthetic displacement data: An example application to the Cascadia subduction zone

D Melgar, RJ LeVeque, DS Dreger… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Scenario ruptures and ground motion simulation are important tools for studies of expected
earthquake and tsunami hazards during future events. This is particularly important for large …

FinDer v. 2: Improved real-time ground-motion predictions for M2–M9 with seismic finite-source characterization

M Böse, DE Smith, C Felizardo… - Geophysical Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies suggest that small and large earthquakes nucleate similarly, and that they
often have indistinguishable seismic waveform onsets. The characterization of earthquakes …

The propagation of local undamped motion (PLUM) method: A simple and robust seismic wavefield estimation approach for earthquake early warning

Y Kodera, Y Yamada, K Hirano… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A basic methodology for earthquake early warning is the use of point‐source models fed
with observational data from triggered stations. The 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku …

Demonstration of the Cascadia G‐FAST geodetic earthquake early warning system for the Nisqually, Washington, earthquake

BW Crowell, DA Schmidt, P Bodin… - Seismological …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT A prototype earthquake early warning (EEW) system is currently in development
in the Pacific Northwest. We have taken a two‐stage approach to EEW:(1) detection and …

Early warning for great earthquakes from characterization of crustal deformation patterns with deep learning

JT Lin, D Melgar, AM Thomas… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Although infrequent, large (Mw7. 5+) earthquakes can be extremely damaging and
occur on subduction and intraplate faults worldwide. Earthquake early warning (EEW) …