SeisBench—A Toolbox for Machine Learning in Seismology

AbstractMachine-learning (ML) methods have seen widespread adoption in seismology in recent years. The ability of these techniques to efficiently infer the statistical properties of large datasets often provides significant improvements over traditional techniques when the number of data are large (millions of examples). With the entire spectrum of seismological tasks, for example, seismic picking and detection, magnitude and source property estimation, ground-motion prediction, hypocenter determination, among others, now incorporating ML approaches, numerous models are emerging as these techniques are further adopted within seismology. To evaluate these algorithms, quality-controlled benchmark datasets that contain representative class distributions are vital. In addition to this, models require implementation through a common framework to facilitate comparison. Accessing these various benchmark datasets for training and implementing the standardization of models is currently a time-consuming process, hindering further advancement of ML techniques within seismology. These development bottlenecks also affect “practitioners” seeking to deploy the latest models on seismic data, without having to necessarily learn entirely new ML frameworks to perform this task. We present SeisBench as a software package to tackle these issues. SeisBench is an open-source framework for deploying ML in seismology—available via GitHub. SeisBench standardizes access to both models and datasets, while also providing a range of common processing and data augmentation operations through the API. Through SeisBench, users can access several seismological ML models and benchmark datasets available in the literature via a single interface. SeisBench is built to be extensible, with community involvement encouraged to expand the package. Having such frameworks available for accessing leading ML models forms an essential tool for seismologists seeking to iterate and apply the next generation of ML techniques to seismic data.

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Published: Mar 16, 2022
Vol/Issue: 93(3)
Pages: 1695-1709

Authors

J

Jack Woollam

Geophysical Institute (GPI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

J

Jannes Münchmeyer

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany; Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

F

Frederik Tilmann

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany; Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

A

Andreas Rietbrock

Geophysical Institute (GPI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

D

Dietrich Lange

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

T

Thomas Bornstein

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany

T

Tobias Diehl

Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

C

Carlo Giunchi

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Pisa, Italy

F

Florian Haslinger

Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

D

Dario Jozinović

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy; Unversità degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

A

Alberto Michelini

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy

J

Joachim Saul

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany

H

Hugo Soto

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany

Cite This Article

Jack Woollam, Jannes Münchmeyer, Frederik Tilmann, et al. (2022). SeisBench—A Toolbox for Machine Learning in Seismology. Seismological Research Letters, 93(3), 1695-1709. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210324

SeisBench—A Toolbox for Machine Learning in Seismology

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