Data for Urban Seismic Source Mapping

In this study, we explore the innovative use of existing and ubiquitous urban infrastructure--telecommunication optical fibers--to map urban seismic sources. We integrate seismic interferometry and beamforming algorithms to overcome the proximity limitations of previous urban seismology approaches. Our method models the propagation of seismic surface waves to estimate the spatio-temporal distribution of seismic source power (SSP; average seismic energy per unit of time), enabling the detection and localization of urban seismic sources occurring remotely from optical fibers. Put these pickle files into '/urban_das/data/das_data/' and run the scripts at https://github.com/jingxiaoliu/urban_das If you use this implementation, please cite our papers: [1] Liu, J., Li, H., Noh, H. Y., Santi, P., Biondi, B., & Ratti, C. (2025). Urban sensing using existing fiber-optic networks. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3091. [2] Yuan, S., Liu, J., Noh, H. Y., Clapp, R., & Biondi, B. (2024). Using vehicle‐induced DAS signals for near‐surface characterization with high spatiotemporal resolution. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(4), e2023JB028033. [3] Liu, J., Yuan, S., Dong, Y., Biondi, B., & Noh, H. Y. (2023). TelecomTM: A fine-grained and ubiquitous traffic monitoring system using pre-existing telecommunication fiber-optic cables as sensors. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 7(2), 1-24.