OMB Individually Reported

Four AI systems using different strategies to identify, classify and locate both volcano-tectonic and non-traditional volcanic earthquakes

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Description

Identifying and classifying volcanic earthquakes, which can be very different from traditional tectonic earthquakes. These are addressed with CNN's, hidden Markov models, and pre-trained neural networks for picking P- and S-waves in seismograms, hierarchial clustering, identifying non-traditional volcanic earthquakes (e.g., long-period, degassing events, bubble collapse, and assigning magnitudes).

Detailed example

Catalogs of earthquakes

AI / analytics pattern

Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relationships.

Automation level / stage

b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.

Expected benefit

These methods will automatically detect and classify earthquakes in large data sets without human review. In the case of identifying small earthquakes, the method has detected 4.5x more earthquakes than human review.

Controls / human review

ATO: Yes; PIA: Not published

Data needed

Seismic waveforms and spectrograms