Anomaly detection of earthquake precursor data using long short-term memory networks*
Cai Yin, Mei-Ling Shyu, Tu Yue-Xuan, Teng Yun-Tian, and Hu Xing-Xing
1. Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100081, China.
2. Shandong Earthquake Agency, Jinan 250014, China.
3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA.
Abstract Earthquake precursor data have been used as an important basis for earthquake prediction. In this study, a recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture with long short-term memory (LSTM) units is utilized to develop a predictive model for normal data. Furthermore, the prediction errors from the predictive models are used to indicate normal or abnormal behavior. An additional advantage of using the LSTM networks is that the earthquake precursor data can be directly fed into the network without any elaborate preprocessing as required by other approaches. Furthermore, no prior information on abnormal data is needed by these networks as they are trained only using normal data. Experiments using three groups of real data were conducted to compare the anomaly detection results of the proposed method with those of manual recognition. The comparison results indicated that the proposed LSTM network achieves promising results and is viable for detecting anomalies in earthquake precursor data.
This work was supported by the Science for Earthquake Resilience of China (No. XH18027),Research and Development of Comprehensive Geophysical Field Observing Instrument in Mainland China (No. Y201703) and Research Fund Project of Shandong Earthquake Agency (Nos. JJ1505Y and JJ1602).
Corresponding Authors: Hu Xing-Xing (Email: huxx@cea-igp.ac.cn)
E-mail: huxx@cea-igp.ac.cn
About author: Yin Cai is a senior engineer in Shandong Earthquake Agency and graduated from Dalian University of Technology in 2007, with a master’s degree in software engineering. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. His researches primarily focus on the application of deep learning methods and cloud computing technology in geoscience. Email: caiyin555@icloud.com ;
Cite this article:
. Anomaly detection of earthquake precursor data using long short-term memory networks*[J]. APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, 2019, 16(3): 257-268.
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