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Earthquake Early Warning: Building a Real-Time Monitoring System on AWS

Overview

• For most of human history, the first warning of a deadly earthquake would be the moment the ground started shaking.
• Advances in seismic and geodetic sciences now allow for real-time earthquake detection and early warning systems.
• The presenters are from the EarthScope Consortium, an organization that measures and reports on the movement of the Earth's crust to power earthquake early warning systems.

Understanding Geodesy and Earthquake Early Warning

• Geodesy is the science of measuring and studying the Earth's shape, gravity, and orientation in space.
• Seismic instruments can struggle to accurately estimate the magnitude of large earthquakes in real-time.
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide complementary data that can be used to rapidly estimate earthquake magnitude based on surface displacement.
• The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake in Japan demonstrated the need for GNSS data in earthquake early warning systems.

EarthScope's Real-Time GNSS Processing Pipeline on AWS

1. Data Ingestion: EarthScope ingests real-time GNSS data from a network of thousands of stations, with over 90% streaming at 1Hz.
2. Stream Processing: EarthScope uses Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) and Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) to handle the real-time data processing pipeline.
   • Ingress service pulls data from stations and publishes to Kafka.
   • Downstream services compute precise point positions (PPP) and peak ground displacement (PGD) measurements.
3. Observability: EarthScope uses the AWS open-source observability stack, including AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, Amazon Managed Grafana, and Amazon Managed Prometheus.
4. Long-term Storage: EarthScope archives the full-resolution GNSS data in Amazon S3, leveraging intelligent tiering to optimize costs.

Architectural Patterns and Design Principles

• EarthScope has followed well-architected framework principles, focusing on:
  1. Operational Excellence: Deploying and iterating quickly through small, contained experiments.
  2. Security, Reliability, and Performance: Leveraging managed services like Amazon MSK and Amazon ECS.
  3. Cost Optimization: Using serverless services for experimentation, then transitioning to provisioned resources for steady-state workloads.
• EarthScope has also emphasized:
  • Collaboration with AWS account teams and partners.
  • Aligning technical decisions with their organization's mission and leadership.

Future Developments

• New, higher-fidelity GNSS data products for earthquake detection.
• Application of machine learning techniques for earthquake detection.
• Enabling large-scale, archive-wide research through a JupyterHub platform.

In summary, EarthScope has built a resilient, scalable, and flexible real-time GNSS processing pipeline on AWS, empowering earthquake early warning systems and enabling transformative geophysical research.