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Date: 4/22/2021

Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Pacific

Network Seismology: Keeping the Network Running While Integrating New Technologies

This session highlights the unique observations, opportunities, challenges and future directions of seismic operation centers. Seismic operation centers play a crucial role in collecting seismic data, generating earthquake products, including catalogs, warnings and maps of ground shaking and responding to many stakeholders, including government agencies and the public. The purpose of the session is to foster collaboration between network operators, inform the wider seismological community of the interesting and challenging problems within network seismology and look to the future on how to improve monitoring capabilities. We encourage submissions related to challenges faced by networks from crises like the COVID shutdown, fires and other natural disasters. We also encourage submissions describing new techniques that would benefit network operations for detecting and locating earthquakes, particularly in a near real-time environment. We are especially interested in algorithms and machine learning (ML) applications, especially comparisons between ML and tried and true human-design algorithms and examples of where ML has been implemented into network operations.

Conveners

William L. Yeck, U.S. Geological Survey (wyeck@usgs.gov)
Kris Pankow, University of Utah Seismograph Stations (pankowseis2@gmail.com)
Renate Hartog, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (jrhartog@uw.edu)

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