台灣位於歐亞板塊以及菲律賓海板塊之間，地震在台灣是相當常見的自然災
害，我們先前的研究已經在台灣佈署超過600 個以上的地震測站(Palert)。當地震
發生時，以偵測地震的初波P 波來進行預警，降低災害所帶來的損失。以往的做
法是利用STA/LTA 觸發器以及經過人工參數的判斷來偵測P 波的抵達，通過判
斷後再送入TCPD 進行fusion 端的地震計算。然而卡車的經過、施工事件或其他
導致地表震動的雜訊大部份依然會通過local 端參數的判斷，也會被送入TCPD
進行決策。這會影響在TCPD 計算地震時候的準確度。人工固定的參數並不能很
有效的解決雜訊的干擾，只能不停的修正再修正，來保持著可容忍的錯誤。在
這篇論文中我們利用了機器學習的方式來加強local 端的偵測。我們根據中央氣
象局(CWB) 專家的專業擷取在波形中的ㄧ些地震特徵值來進行KNN(K-nearest
neighbors) 學習、決策樹(Decision Tree) 學習以及支持向量機SVM(Support vector
machine) 學習。做交叉分析並比較其結果並選出較好的學習參數，比較模組的
f-score 值以及預測時間，最後選擇出其中表現最好的模組以上線進行地震的預
警。由於低成本的測站有利於廣泛的佈署，因此我們很容易取得大量的未發生地
震的資料產生，訓練資料集的內容可以包含幾乎大部分的雜訊情況。而台灣一年
有著上百個大小地震，地震資料也相當的豐富。

Since the dramatic changes in the global climate, earthquakes occurred more and
more frequently in the recent years. The damages caused by earthquakes have become
serious threats to human life and property. Providing early warning in realtime can be
a potential way to prevent casualties when massive earthquakes occur. However, false
alarms could also cause large loss or panic among people. Therefore, correctly detecting
the occurrence of an earthquake is a critical issue in disaster prevention and control. Since
signals collected by seismic sensors are usually corrupted by noise in the practice, many
detecting schemes have been proposed to provide better accuracy for earthquake detection.
Traditional schemes usually depend on manually selecting parameters or thresholds
in the detection process in order to reduce false alarms. The quality of detection decisions
is highly correlated to the experiences of the parameter and threshold selection. In
this paper, advanced machine learning mechanisms are adopted to learn from historical
events and identify the occurrence of earthquakes. Rather than relying on the experiences
of experts in geology, it can have objective and fair criteria in identifying the occurrence
of earthquakes and prevent false alarms caused by the experiences of human beings. The
seismic data collected by an experimented strong motion detection network built in Taiwan
are used to train the machine learning mechanisms including the K-Nearest Neighbor
(KNN) method, Classification Tree, and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Comparing to
the traditional detection method which selects thresholds based on experiences for certain
criteria to identify the occurrence of earthquakes, the proposed learning detection methods
performs much better in terms of detection accuracy. False alarms can be almost totally
prevented for large earthquake events.

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