Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Earthquake transformer—an attentive deep-learning model for simultaneous earthquake detection and phase picking

  • S. Mostafa Mousavi,
  • William L. Ellsworth,
  • Weiqiang Zhu,
  • Lindsay Y. Chuang,
  • Gregory C. Beroza

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17591-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The authors here present a deep learning model that simultaneously detects earthquake signals and measures seismic-phase arrival times. The model performs particularly well for cases with high background noise and the challenging task of picking the S wave arrival.