Realistic synthetic data can be useful for data augmentation when training deep learning models to improve seismological detection and classification performance. In recent years, various deep learning techniques have been successfully applied in modern seismology. Due to the performance of deep learning depends on a sufficient volume of data, the data augmentation technique as a data-space solution is widely utilized. In this paper, we propose a Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) based model that uses conditional knowledge to generate high-quality seismic waveforms. Unlike the existing method of generating samples directly from noise, the proposed method generates synthetic samples based on the statistical characteristics of real seismic waveforms in embedding space. Moreover, a content loss is added to relate high-level features extracted by a pre-trained model to the objective function to enhance the quality of the synthetic data. The classification accuracy is increased from 96.84% to 97.92% after mixing a certain amount of synthetic seismic waveforms, and results of the quality of seismic characteristics derived from the representative experiment show that the proposed model provides an effective structure for generating high-quality synthetic seismic waveforms. Thus, the proposed model is experimentally validated as a promising approach to realistic high-quality seismic waveform data augmentation.

This letter presents a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with attention module that improves the performance of the classification of various earthquake events. Addressing all possible earthquake events, including not only microearthquakes and artificial-earthquakes but also large-earthquakes, requires both suitable feature expression and a classifier that can effectively discriminate seismic waveforms under adverse conditions. To robustly classify earthquake events, a deep CNN with an attention module was proposed in raw seismic waveforms. Representative experimental results show that the proposed method provides an effective structure for earthquake events classification and, with the Korean peninsula earthquake database from 2016 to 2018, outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods.

This paper proposes a multiple station based seismic event classification model using a deep convolution neural network and graph convolution network. To classify various seismic events, such as natural earthquakes, artificial earthquakes and noise, the proposed model consists of weight-shared convolution layers, graph convolution layers and fully connected layers. We employed graph convolution layers in order to aggregate features from multiple station. Representative experimental results with the Korean peninsula earthquake datasets from 2016 to 2019 showed that the proposed model is superior to the single-station based state-of the-art methods. Moreover, the proposed model significantly reduced false alarms when using continuous waveforms of long duration. The code is available here1.

The performance of a deep learning (DL) model depends on sufficient training datasets and its algorithmic structure. Even though seismological research using low-cost micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensor received much attention recently, because of the lack of data recorded by such MEMS sensors whose data are usually polluted by different types of noise. Therefore, increasing seismic datasets is required by intelligently generating seismic data through data-augmentation techniques. However, it is difficult to characterize and measure the evolution process of seismic sequences, making the feature extraction and data generation of seismic sequences still a significant challenge. By combining the framework of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with long short-term memory (LSTM), attention mechanism and neural network (NN), a novel deep generation model (DGM) named EQGAN is developed to overcome the challenges, which can automatically capture the different time histories and dimension characteristics of seismic sequences, meanwhile stably generating high-quality seismic data. The reality of generated data is qualitatively clarified through the analysis of frequency domain and data autocorrelation distribution. Based on the High-throughput Screening (HTS) Theory, the quantitative evaluation index of statistical metrics is designed, and the generation performance of different machine learning models (standard GAN, LSTM, NN) is compared to prove the stability and effectiveness of EQGAN. The experimental results denote that the EQGAN has excellent stability and performance (up to 81%, much higher than that of other generation models), which provides a suitable data expansion approach for the field of seismological research.