Greg Beroza

Stanford University

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My interest is in analyzing seismograms to understand how earthquakes work and to quantify the hazards they pose. My research group studies earthquake source processes for shallow earthquakes, intermediate-depth earthquakes, induced earthquakes, and slow earthquakes. We are working to improve earthquake monitoring in all settings by applying data mining and machine learning techniques to large volumes of continuous seismic waveform data. We also work on methods to anticipate the strength of shaking in earthquakes using the ambient seismic field (seismic waves present in the Earth at all times). We use these ambient field measurements to image shallow structure and also to construct "virtual earthquakes" that can be used to anticipate variations in the strength of shaking in real earthquakes. For the past 12 years I have been Deputy-Director/Co-Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center

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Talk 10.1 - Towards Complete Machine-Learning-Based Earthquake Monitoring Workflows
04:00 PM

Standard earthquake monitoring workflows can be described with the following sequence of steps: (1) pre-processing, (2) phase detection, (3) event detection/phase association, (4) event location, and (5) event characterization. Neural networks have been shown capable of replacing each of these steps, and in some cases lead to dramatic improvement. In this talk I will present progress on using machine learning on continuous ground motion recorded across a seismic network to generate earthquake catalogs that are far more comprehensive than those developed using standard approaches. A combination of appropriate architecture, accurate data labels, and data augmentation all play an important role in developing effective models. The simplest approach to implement machine-learning-based monitoring is modular – to replace individual earthquake monitoring steps one-by-one with neural network models. There can be advantages, however, in combining steps in multi-task models to take advantage of contextual information. Moreover, it is possible to combine all steps in an end-to-end model, which could hold advantages over the modular approach. In this talk I will demonstrate each of these possibilities and illustrate them with real-world examples.

Greg Beroza

Stanford University

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