Currently we are using a peak acceleration value to declare an earthquake. However any acceleration can trigger this (cars, people, drilling).
Short term average/long term average (STA/LTA) is well used in seismology to detect earthquakes. For OpenEEW this would work by comparing a small window of 1 second of data against a larger window of 10 seconds of data. The STA/LTA output value is then compared against a trigger threshold.
Currently we are using a peak acceleration value to declare an earthquake. However any acceleration can trigger this (cars, people, drilling).
Short term average/long term average (STA/LTA) is well used in seismology to detect earthquakes. For OpenEEW this would work by comparing a small window of 1 second of data against a larger window of 10 seconds of data. The STA/LTA output value is then compared against a trigger threshold.
An example of this in python is here: https://github.com/openeew/openeew-detection/blob/master/openeew/detection.py