sceval

High-sensitivity earthquake monitoring

sceval automatically discriminates real earthquakes from fake solutions. Reliable automatic monitoring of earthquakes at low magnitudes is challenging due to the low number and the possibly low quality of available phase detections. Therefore, automatic systems are often tuned to only accept robust solutions with many observations preventing fake events. Such systems potentially miss weak events resulting in incomplete earthquake catalogs.

With sceval seismic monitoring systems can be tuned to even accept very weak events detected under unfavorable conditions. sceval will evaluate the solutions and find fakes or mark them as real if the solution is likely to represent a real event. In this way earthquake catalogs can reach high completeness while being clean from fakes and operators can focus on analyzing the most relevant events.

Automatic tuning

Tuning of such event discrimination may be time-consuming and difficult. Therefore, sceval comes with a self-tuning tool providing the optimum configuration parameters based on manual observations.

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