Evaluating Multi-station Phase Picking Algorithm Phase Neural Operator (PhaseNO) on Local Seismic Networks

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Main Authors: Kong, Qingkai, Chatterjee, Avigyan, Chai, Chengping, Dzubay, Alex, Kroll, Kayla A., Stachnik, Josh C., Fertig, Scott, Liefer, Jeffrey, Friberg, Paul
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author Kong, Qingkai
Chatterjee, Avigyan
Chai, Chengping
Dzubay, Alex
Kroll, Kayla A.
Stachnik, Josh C.
Fertig, Scott
Liefer, Jeffrey
Friberg, Paul
author_facet Kong, Qingkai
Chatterjee, Avigyan
Chai, Chengping
Dzubay, Alex
Kroll, Kayla A.
Stachnik, Josh C.
Fertig, Scott
Liefer, Jeffrey
Friberg, Paul
contents Reliable automatic phase picking is important for many seismic applications. With the development of machine learning approaches, many algorithms are proposed, evaluated and applied to different areas. Many of these algorithms are single station based, while recent proposed methods start to combine surrounding stations into consideration in the problem of phase picking. Among these algorithms, the Phase Neural Operator (PhaseNO) shows promising results on regional datasets comparing to existing algorithms. But there are many use cases for the local seismic networks in our community, therefore in this paper we evaluate the performance of PhaseNO on 4 different local datasets and compared the results to PhaseNet and EQTransformer. We used both individual phase picking metrics as well as association metrics to illustrate the performance of PhaseNO. With manually reviewing the newly detected events, we find the PhaseNO model outperformed the single station-based approaches in the local-scale use cases due to its consideration of coherent signals from multiple stations. We also explored PhaseNO's behaviors when only using one station, as well as gradually increase the number of stations in the seismic network to understand it better. Overall, using the off-the-shelf machine learning based phase pickers, PhaseNO demonstrated its good performance on local-scale seismic networks.
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spellingShingle Evaluating Multi-station Phase Picking Algorithm Phase Neural Operator (PhaseNO) on Local Seismic Networks
Kong, Qingkai
Chatterjee, Avigyan
Chai, Chengping
Dzubay, Alex
Kroll, Kayla A.
Stachnik, Josh C.
Fertig, Scott
Liefer, Jeffrey
Friberg, Paul
Geophysics
Reliable automatic phase picking is important for many seismic applications. With the development of machine learning approaches, many algorithms are proposed, evaluated and applied to different areas. Many of these algorithms are single station based, while recent proposed methods start to combine surrounding stations into consideration in the problem of phase picking. Among these algorithms, the Phase Neural Operator (PhaseNO) shows promising results on regional datasets comparing to existing algorithms. But there are many use cases for the local seismic networks in our community, therefore in this paper we evaluate the performance of PhaseNO on 4 different local datasets and compared the results to PhaseNet and EQTransformer. We used both individual phase picking metrics as well as association metrics to illustrate the performance of PhaseNO. With manually reviewing the newly detected events, we find the PhaseNO model outperformed the single station-based approaches in the local-scale use cases due to its consideration of coherent signals from multiple stations. We also explored PhaseNO's behaviors when only using one station, as well as gradually increase the number of stations in the seismic network to understand it better. Overall, using the off-the-shelf machine learning based phase pickers, PhaseNO demonstrated its good performance on local-scale seismic networks.
title Evaluating Multi-station Phase Picking Algorithm Phase Neural Operator (PhaseNO) on Local Seismic Networks
topic Geophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15281