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Keywords

  • home seismometer
  • EEW
  • noise discrimination

Index Terms

  • Seismology: Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology
  • Seismology: Seismic instruments and networks
  • Seismology: Computational seismology
  • Seismology: Subduction zones
  • Seismology: Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction

Abstract

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 36, L00B04, 5 PP., 2009
doi:10.1029/2008GL036572

Home seismometer for earthquake early warning

Shigeki Horiuchi

National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan

Yuko Horiuchi

Home Seismometer Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan

Shunroku Yamamoto

Railway Technical Research Institute, Kokubunji, Japan

Hiromitsu Nakamura

National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan

Changjiang Wu

National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan

Paul A. Rydelek

Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan-si Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Masaaki Kachi

A2 Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has started the practical service of Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) and a very dense deployment of receiving units is expected in the near future. The receiving/alarm unit of an EEW system is equipped with a CPU and memory and is on-line via the internet. By adding an inexpensive seismometer and A/D converter, this unit is transformed into a real-time seismic observatory, which we are calling a home seismometer. If the home seismometer is incorporated in the standard receiving unit of EEW, then the number of seismic observatories will be drastically increased. Since the background noise inside a house caused by human activity may be very large, we have developed specialized software for on-site warning using the home seismometer. We tested our software and found that our algorithm can correctly distinguish between noise and earthquakes for nearly all the events.

Received 4 November 2008; accepted 18 December 2008; published 13 February 2009.

Citation: Horiuchi, S., Y. Horiuchi, S. Yamamoto, H. Nakamura, C. Wu, P. A. Rydelek, and M. Kachi (2009), Home seismometer for earthquake early warning, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L00B04, doi:10.1029/2008GL036572.

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