Abstract
We study the problem of discrimination between earthquakes and
explosions on the basis of seismic signals detected at teleseismic
distances (over 2000 km). Most work in the field of discrimination has
been limited to signals detected within a few hundred kilometers which
limits their utility from the perspective of sparse global seismic
networks for either treaty monitoring or seismic hazard analysis. We
show that existing Deep Learning architectures that have been proposed
for discrimination or related tasks such as phase classification or
signal detection can be repurposed for teleseismic discrimination. Using
hyperparameter tuning methods we have been able to improve the
performance relative to the original architectures while reducing the
model complexity. We present empirical analysis of a number of different
methods, and demonstrate that our proposed Deep Learning architecture
performs the best at teleseismic discrimination and is able to reliably
identify rockburst events.