Paper ID: 2410.15765

SeisLM: a Foundation Model for Seismic Waveforms

Tianlin Liu, Jannes Münchmeyer, Laura Laurenti, Chris Marone, Maarten V. de Hoop, Ivan Dokmanić

We introduce the Seismic Language Model (SeisLM), a foundational model designed to analyze seismic waveforms -- signals generated by Earth's vibrations such as the ones originating from earthquakes. SeisLM is pretrained on a large collection of open-source seismic datasets using a self-supervised contrastive loss, akin to BERT in language modeling. This approach allows the model to learn general seismic waveform patterns from unlabeled data without being tied to specific downstream tasks. When fine-tuned, SeisLM excels in seismological tasks like event detection, phase-picking, onset time regression, and foreshock-aftershock classification. The code has been made publicly available on this https URL

Submitted: Oct 21, 2024