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48 results for earthquake precursor

This paper improves change-point detection for complex data streams using denoising score matching.

problem Timely identification of distributional shifts in high-dimensional, complex data streams.
method Score-based CUSUM change-point detection with denoising score matching.
result Denoising score matching enhances detection power by effectively controlling noise scale.

The paper generalizes Thurston's earthquake map to cluster algebras of finite type.

problem Tackling Thurston's earthquake map in the context of cluster algebras of finite type.
method Introducing a cluster algebraic generalization of Thurston's earthquake map, defined by gluing exponential maps.
result Proves an analogue of the earthquake theorem for cluster algebras of finite type, showing the cluster earthquake map is a homeomorphism.

Deep neural networks predict earthquake locations with high accuracy.

problem Predicting the location of earthquakes with high precision.
method Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNN) model that accounts for spatio-temporal dependencies.
result Neural networks model outperforms baseline models in predicting earthquakes with ROC AUC 0.975 and PR AUC 0.0890.

Study shows house buyers in Christchurch value earthquake risk differently based on time since 2011 quake.

problem Understanding how house buyers' perception of earthquake risk changes over time.
method Used a hedonic price model to analyze house prices in Christchurch over three periods.
result Buyers value earthquake risk differently based on the time since the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

In this paper we study the typical speed of a generic earthquake trajectory leaving compact sets in the moduli space of the once-punctured torus. Mirzakhani showed that the earthquake flow is measurably equivalent to the horocyclic flow, which has been studied extensively. Our main result shows that the earthquake flow…

2015-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Deviance Voronoi residuals improve earthquake insurance risk assessment.

problem Assessing earthquake insurance risk using spatio-temporal point process models.
method Extended Voronoi residuals and created simulation-based approach.
result Proposed formula for country-wide minimum capital test.

We prove that the bijective correspondence between the space of bounded measured laminations MLb(H)ML_b(\mathbb{H}) and the universal Teichmüller space T(H)T(\mathbb{H}) given by λEλS1λ\mapsto E^λ|_{S^1} is a homeomorphism for the Fréchet topology on MLb(H)ML_b(\mathbb{H}) and the Teichmüller topology on T(H)T(\mathbb{H}), where $E^λ…

2010-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a short proof of the fact that bounded earthquakes of the unit disk induce quasisymmetric maps of the unit circle. By a similar method, we show that symmetric maps are induced by bounded earthquakes with asymptotically trivial measures.

2006-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Text analytics based on supervised machine learning classifiers has shown great promise in a multitude of domains, but has yet to be applied to Seismology. We test various standard models (Naive Bayes, k-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machines, and Random Forests) on a seismological corpus of 100 articles related to…

2018-10-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses MIL and MHCNN-RNN to predict precursors to aviation safety events.

problem Identifying events that precede aviation safety incidents.
method Multiple-instance learning (MIL) framework combined with a Multi-Head Convolutional Neural Network-Recurrent Neural Network (MHCNN-RNN) architecture.
result Multiple binary classifiers outperform in predicting high speed and high path angle events during the approach phase.

Let $\cT$ be Teichmüller space of a closed surface of genus at least 2. For any point $c\in \cT$, we describe an action of the circle on $\cT\times \cT$, which limits to the earthquake flow when one of the parameters goes to a measured lamination in the Thurston boundary of $\cT$. This circle action shares some of the …

2011-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A machine learning surrogate model predicts earthquake-induced building responses.

problem Expensive FE model simulations for earthquake damage estimation.
method SVD-based earthquake characterization and machine learning model training.
result Deep neural network provides most accurate predictions of building responses.

This paper introduces EQShapelets (EarthQuake Shapelets) a time-series shape-based approach embedded in machine learning to autonomously detect earthquakes. It promises to overcome the challenges in the field of seismology related to automated detection and cataloging of earthquakes. EQShapelets are amplitude and phase…

2019-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New benchmark for earthquake forecasting models shows current neural point processes are not yet suitable.

problem Lack of a modern benchmark for evaluating neural point process models in earthquake forecasting.
method Curated and standardized earthquake catalog, evaluation protocols, and datasets.
result None of the tested NPPs outperformed the classical ETAS model.

The paper proves a theorem about earthquake extensions of vector fields on circles.

problem Proving a theorem about earthquake extensions of vector fields on circles.
method Using the geometry of the dual of Minkowski three-space and Half-pipe three-geometry.
result A generalization of Kerckhoff's and Gardiner's infinitesimal earthquake theorems to a broader setting.

We prove an "Earthquake Theorem" for hyperbolic metrics with geodesic boundary on a compact surfaces SS with boundary: given two hyperbolic metrics with geodesic boundary on a surface with kk boundary components, there are 2k2^k right earthquakes transforming the first in the second. An alternative formulation arises…

2006-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New method identifies precursors of financial crises in market correlation structures.

problem Predicting long-term financial crises in non-Markovian, non-stationary markets.
method Identifying quasi-stationary market states and their precursor properties.
result Certain features of market states show potential as indicators of financial crises.

In this paper mechanisms of reversion - momentum transition are considered. Two basic nonlinear mechanisms are highlighted: a slow and fast bifurcation. A slow bifurcation leads to the equilibrium evolution, preceded by stability loss delay of a control parameter. A single order parameter is introduced by Markovian cha…

2015-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Let X0X_0 be a complete hyperbolic surface of infinite type that has a geodesic pants decomposition with cuff lengths bounded above. The length spectrum Teichmüller space Tls(X0)T_{ls}(X_0) consists of homotopy classes of hyperbolic metrics on X0X_0 such that the ratios of the corresponding simple closed geodesic for the hy…

2012-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised method detects earthquakes from raw waveforms, generalizing across datasets.

problem Lack of labeled data for earthquake detection.
method Uses deep autoencoders with cross-covariance triggering at bottleneck.
result Performance comparable to supervised methods, with strong cross-dataset generalization.

Neural model outperforms ETAS in forecasting Central Apennines earthquakes.

problem Short-term seismicity forecasting with incomplete data.
method Extended a neural network model to the magnitude domain, using it to forecast earthquakes above a target magnitude threshold.
result Neural model outperforms ETAS at lower magnitude thresholds, due to its robustness to missing data.

We prove two related results. The first is an ``Earthquake Theorem'' for closed hyperbolic surfaces with cone singularities where the total angle is less than ππ: any two such metrics in are connected by a unique left earthquake. The second result is that the space of ``globally hyperbolic'' AdS manifolds with ``parti…

2006-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper adapts Thurston's earthquake metric to Riemann surfaces with marked points.

problem Defining a norm and metric on Teichmüller spaces for surfaces of arbitrary genus.
method Adapting Thurston's earthquake norm to Riemann surfaces with marked points and using complex Legendre transforms.
result Establishes a complete analogue of Thurston's earthquake norm in the conformal setting.

The landslide flow, introduced in [5], is a smoother analog of the earthquake flow on Teichmüller space which shares some of its key properties. We show here that further properties of earthquakes apply to landslides. The landslide flow is the Hamiltonian flow of a convex function. The smooth grafting map sgrsgr taking …

2012-08-08abs ↗pdf ↗

There is a small number of case studies of automatic land cover classification on the coastal area. Here, I test extraction of seagrass beds, sandy area, oyster farming rafts at Mangoku-ura Lagoon, Miyagi, Japan by comparing manual tracing, simple image segmentation, and image transformation using deep learning. The re…

2019-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Let S be a closed surface of genus at least 2, and consider two measured geodesic laminations that fill S. Right earthquakes along these laminations are diffeomorphisms of the Teichmüller space of S. We prove that the composition of these earthquakes has a fixed point in the Teichmüller space. Another way to state this…

2008-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates Schwarzian derivative on long complex projective tubes.

problem Behaviour of Schwarzian derivative on complex projective structures.
method Analyzes Schwarzian derivative on long complex projective tubes, estimating its pairing with infinitesimal earthquakes and graftings.
result Obtains bounds for the variation of renormalized volume under complex earthquake paths and its asymptotic behavior under pinching.

We find prominent similarities in the features of the time series for the (model earthquakes or) overlap of two Cantor sets when one set moves with uniform relative velocity over the other and time series of stock prices. An anticipation method for some of the crashes have been proposed here, based on these observation…

2007-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Hamenstädt gave a parametrization of the Teichmüller space of punctured surfaces such that the image under this parametrization is the interior of a polytope. In this paper, we study the Hilbert metric on the Teichmüller space of punctured surfaces based on this parametrization. We prove that every earthquake ray is an…

2017-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Spatially-aware model improves earthquake hazard assessment accuracy.

problem Misrepresentation of seismic effects across diverse landscapes.
method Causal Bayesian network with Gaussian Processes and normalizing flows.
result Achieves up to 35.2% AUC improvement over existing methods.

Shapelet transform improves time series classification for earthquake, wind, and wave events.

problem Autonomous detection of specific events from large time series datasets in civil engineering.
method Shapelet transform for local similarity in time series subsequences, combined with machine learning.
result Shapelet transform yields a new feature representation for time series signals in civil engineering.

New method predicts spatial events like hurricanes and earthquakes with uncertainty.

problem Quantifying uncertainty in natural hazard predictions.
method Representing spatial point clouds as empirical measures, constraining prediction sets to spatial data manifold, using Wasserstein distance.
result Achieves near-nominal coverage and lower energy/manifold distances compared to baselines.