Automatic Arrival Time Detection for Earthquakes Based on Stacked Denoising Autoencoder

The accurate detection of P-wave arrival time is imperative for determining the hypocenter location of an earthquake. However, precise detection of onset time becomes more difficult when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the seismic data is low, such as during microearthquakes. In this letter, a st...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Jg. 15; H. 11; S. 1687 - 1691
Hauptverfasser: Saad, Omar M., Inoue, Koji, Shalaby, Ahmed, Samy, Lotfy, Sayed, Mohammed S.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Japanisch
Veröffentlicht: Piscataway IEEE 01.11.2018
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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ISSN:1545-598X, 1558-0571
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Zusammenfassung:The accurate detection of P-wave arrival time is imperative for determining the hypocenter location of an earthquake. However, precise detection of onset time becomes more difficult when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the seismic data is low, such as during microearthquakes. In this letter, a stacked denoising autoencoder (SDAE) is proposed to smooth the background noise. The SDAE acts as a denoising filter for the seismic data. In the proposed algorithm, the SDAE is utilized to reduce background noise such that the onset time becomes more clear and sharp. Afterward, a hard decision with one threshold is used to detect the onset time of the event. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on both synthetic and field seismic data. As a result, the proposed algorithm outperforms the short-time average/long-time average and the Akaike information criterion algorithms. The proposed algorithm accurately picks the onset time of 94.1% for 407 field seismic waveforms with a standard deviation error of 0.10 s. In addition, the results indicate that the proposed algorithm can pick arrival times accurately for weak SNR seismic data with SNR higher than −14 dB.
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ISSN:1545-598X
1558-0571
DOI:10.1109/LGRS.2018.2861218