RockNet: Rockfall and earthquake detection and association via multitask
learning and transfer learning
Abstract
Seismological data can provide timely information for slope failure
hazard assessments, among which rockfall waveform identification is
challenging for its high waveform variations across different events and
stations. A rockfall waveform does not have typical body waves as
earthquakes do, so researchers have made enormous efforts to explore
characteristic function parameters for automatic rockfall waveform
detection. With recent advances in deep learning, algorithms can learn
to automatically map the input data to target functions. We develop
RockNet via multitask and transfer learning; the network consists of a
single-station detection model and an association model. The former
discriminates rockfall and earthquake waveforms. The latter determines
the local occurrences of rockfall and earthquake events by assembling
the single-station detection model representations with multiple station
recordings. RockNet achieves macro F1 scores of 0.990 and 0.981 in terms
of discriminating earthquakes and rockfalls from other events with the
single-station detection and association models, respectively.