P Wave Arrival Picking and First‐Motion Polarity Determination With Deep Learning

@article{Ross2018PWA,
  title={P Wave Arrival Picking and First‐Motion Polarity Determination With Deep Learning},
  author={Zachary E. Ross and Men‐Andrin Meier and Egill Hauksson},
  journal={Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
  year={2018},
  volume={123},
  pages={5120 - 5129}
}
Determining earthquake hypocenters and focal mechanisms requires precisely measured P wave arrival times and first‐motion polarities. Automated algorithms for estimating these quantities have been less accurate than estimates by human experts, which are problematic for processing large data volumes. Here we train convolutional neural networks to measure both quantities, which learn directly from seismograms without the need for feature extraction. The networks are trained on 18.2 million… 
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