Rewriting the book on Earthquake Locations Ethan Coon (APAM) Felix Waldhauser (LDEO)
Day One The science: Earthquake relocation The math: Deriving a linear system hypoDD: an algorithm for relocation Day Two Solving the linear system Results and scaling Future work
hypoDD Algorithm Read in initial location data (initial guesses) Form cross-correlations for available pairs of waveforms Use Clustering algorithm to form graph of earthquake pairs Form matrix of the arrival time derivatives (simple model) Compute weights based on measurement quality and distance between events Linear solve for changes in earthquake locations ~ 20 iterations for convergence with changing weights ~ 80% of clock time (on system of ~ 1k events) PETSC !