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 …

Generalized seismic phase detection with deep learning

ZE Ross, MA Meier, E Hauksson… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
To optimally monitor earthquake‐generating processes, seismologists have sought to lower
detection sensitivities ever since instrumental seismic networks were started about a century …

Searching for hidden earthquakes in Southern California

ZE Ross, DT Trugman, E Hauksson, PM Shearer - Science, 2019 - science.org
Earthquakes follow a well-known power-law size relation, with smaller events occurring
much more often than larger events. Earthquake catalogs are thus dominated by small …

3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms

ZE Ross, ES Cochran, DT Trugman, JD Smith - Science, 2020 - science.org
The vibrant evolutionary patterns made by earthquake swarms are incompatible with
standard, effectively two-dimensional (2D) models for general fault architecture. We …

The spatial footprint of injection wells in a global compilation of induced earthquake sequences

THW Goebel, EE Brodsky - Science, 2018 - science.org
Fluid injection can cause extensive earthquake activity, sometimes at unexpectedly large
distances. Appropriately mitigating associated seismic hazards requires a better …

Updip Fluid Flow in the Crust of the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan, Triggered the 2023 Mw 6.2 Suzu Earthquake During Swarm Activity

K Yoshida, N Uchida, Y Matsumoto… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An M w 6.2 earthquake occurred in Suzu, northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan, on 5 May
2023, followed by many aftershocks. Before this mainshock‐aftershock sequence, an …

PhaseLink: A deep learning approach to seismic phase association

ZE Ross, Y Yue, MA Meier, E Hauksson… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic phase association is a fundamental task in seismology that pertains to linking
together phase detections on different sensors that originate from a common earthquake. It …

GrowClust: A hierarchical clustering algorithm for relative earthquake relocation, with application to the Spanish Springs and Sheldon, Nevada, earthquake sequences

DT Trugman, PM Shearer - Seismological Research …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Accurate earthquake locations are essential for providing reliable hazard assessments,
understanding the physical mechanisms driving extended earthquake sequences, and …

Landslide hazard cascades can trigger earthquakes

Z Zhang, M Liu, YJ Tan, F Walter, S He… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
While earthquakes are well-known to trigger surface hazards and initiate hazard cascades,
whether surface hazards can instead trigger earthquakes remains underexplored. In 2018 …

A high‐resolution seismic catalog for the initial 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence: Foreshocks, aftershocks, and faulting complexity

DR Shelly - Seismological Research Letters, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
I use template matching and precise relative relocation techniques to develop a high‐
resolution earthquake catalog for the initial portion of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake …