The Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Metric for Waveform Based Earthquake Location

The Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Metric for Waveform Based Earthquake Location

Year:    2023

Author:    Datong Zhou, Jing Chen, Hao Wu, Dinghui Yang, Lingyun Qiu

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 41 (2023), Iss. 3 : pp. 437–457

Abstract

In this paper, we apply the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao (WFR) metric from the unbalanced optimal transport theory to the earthquake location problem. Compared with the quadratic Wasserstein ($W_2$) metric from the classical optimal transport theory, the advantage of this method is that it retains the important amplitude information as a new constraint, which avoids the problem of the degeneration of the optimization objective function near the real earthquake hypocenter and origin time. As a result, the deviation of the global minimum of the optimization objective function based on the WFR metric from the true solution can be much smaller than the results based on the $W_2$ metric when there exists strong data noise. Thus, we develop an accurate earthquake location method under strong data noise. Many numerical experiments verify our conclusions.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2109-m2021-0045

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 41 (2023), Iss. 3 : pp. 437–457

Published online:    2023-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    21

Keywords:    The Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao metric The quadratic Wasserstein metric Inverse theory Waveform inversion Earthquake location.

Author Details

Datong Zhou

Jing Chen

Hao Wu

Dinghui Yang

Lingyun Qiu

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