Constructing a Hidden Markov Model based earthquake detector: Application to induced seismicity

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 602-610

  Beyreuther, Moritz ^a   Hammer, Conny ^b   Wassermann, Joachim ^a   Ohrnberger, Matthias ^b   Megies, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neural networks, fuzzy logic; Seismic monitoring and test ban treaty verification; Time series analysis; Volcano seismology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STATIONS; CONTINUOUS DATA; DENSE NETWORK; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DETECTION RATES; EARTHQUAKE DETECTION; EARTHQUAKE DETECTORS; FALSE ALARMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); HYDROTHERMAL POWER; INDONESIA; INDUCED SEISMICITY; MERAPI VOLCANOS; MODEL PARAMETERS; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC MONITORING SYSTEMS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY; STATE CLUSTERING; TIME DEPENDENCY; TRIGGER ALGORITHMS; VOLCANO SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKES; FUZZY LOGIC; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOLCANOES;

DETECTORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; INDUCED SEISMICITY; MARKOV CHAIN; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE;

EAST JAVA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAVA; MERAPI; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84858613922     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05361.x     Document Type: Article

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