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The CISN Testing Center (CTC) consists of scientific analysis software, CISN EEW algorithm performance reports, and earthquake observational data. This entry is a collection point for current and past results from the CTC testing center.
 
The CISN Testing Center (CTC) consists of scientific analysis software, CISN EEW algorithm performance reports, and earthquake observational data. This entry is a collection point for current and past results from the CTC testing center.
  
== Accessing ShakeAlert Performance Summaries ==
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== Type of ShakeAlert Performance Summaries ==
The current EEW results are distributed in several places. Here's a guide to the basic information available.
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We current support four event oriented summaries, and four cumulative summaries.
  
The automated nightly evaluation results are posted at the following location.
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== Cumulative Summaries ==
*[http://scec.usc.edu/research/eew/summary/California/shake-alert/results CTC Automated Daily ShakeAlert Testing Results]
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The cumulative summaries are based on a "selected" start date (current selected at 1 Sept 2011), through current date. The CTC retrieves all events in this time range from ANSS, then filters them in two ways. First, it removes all events less than M3.5. Second, it removes all events outside of the California CSEP Testing area. This is an area the includes all of California, and a little room on each edge including Nevada, Mexico, and the Pacific ocean.
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The input catalog (that is all events in ANSS catalog), and the filtered catalog, are available
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*[http://scec.usc.edu/research/eew/summary/California/shake-alert/observations/ (scec.eew.Catalog.EEWANSSOneDay-EEWANSSCatalog.dat.1328657526.726369.1) ANSS Raw Event Catalog]  
  
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*http://scec.usc.edu/research/eew/summary/California/shake-alert/observations/  (EEWANSSCatalog.dat.Magnitude3.5) ShakeAlert Filtered Event Catalog]
  
  
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== Daily Event Processing ==
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The automated nightly evaluation results are posted at the following location.
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*[http://scec.usc.edu/research/eew/summary/California/shake-alert/results CTC Automated Daily ShakeAlert Testing Results]
  
 
== CTC ShakeAlert Testing ==
 
== CTC ShakeAlert Testing ==

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The CISN Testing Center (CTC) consists of scientific analysis software, CISN EEW algorithm performance reports, and earthquake observational data. This entry is a collection point for current and past results from the CTC testing center.

Type of ShakeAlert Performance Summaries

We current support four event oriented summaries, and four cumulative summaries.

Cumulative Summaries

The cumulative summaries are based on a "selected" start date (current selected at 1 Sept 2011), through current date. The CTC retrieves all events in this time range from ANSS, then filters them in two ways. First, it removes all events less than M3.5. Second, it removes all events outside of the California CSEP Testing area. This is an area the includes all of California, and a little room on each edge including Nevada, Mexico, and the Pacific ocean.

The input catalog (that is all events in ANSS catalog), and the filtered catalog, are available


Daily Event Processing

The automated nightly evaluation results are posted at the following location.

CTC ShakeAlert Testing

As of September 2011, CISN Testing Center (CTC) processing now evaluates performance of the prototype CISN ShakeAlert EEW system. CTC evaluations are now based on earthquake parameter forecasts as logged by the CISN ShakeAlert system at U.C. Berkeley.

This testing include inputs from three algorithms (UCB Elarms, ETH Virtual Seismologist, and Caltech Onsite) as well as processing outputs from the ShakeAlert Decision Module.

The CTC automated testing center uses the following processing steps in its evaluation:

  1. Evaluations are run once per day.
  2. In order to let evaluation EEW alerts against "final" "stable" earthquake parameters, evaluations are delay for two days. That is on Tuesday, evaluations are done for the previous Sunday.
  3. Evaluation processing retrieves observed earthquake information from the ANSS catalog.
  4. ANSS catalog entries are filtered and earthquake below Mag 2.5 or outside the state of California are discarded.
  5. Evaluation processing retrieves ShakeAlert log files from operational server at UCB.
  6. For each ANSS earthquake, we look for one or more ShakeAlert triggers with origin time within 45 seconds of the observed earthquake.
  7. Plots are produced showing final (observed, ANSS) magnitude as compared to algorithm alerts from VS, OnSite, and ElarmS and Decision Module alerts (as sent to users).

The automated nightly evaluation results are posted at the following location.

Fig 1. Example CTC Performance Summary for ShakeAlert on recent California earthquake showing Algorithm performance (Virtual Seismologists) and Decision Module performance (ShakeAlert).
Fig 2. Example CTC Performance Summary for ShakeAlert on recent California earthquake showing Algorithm performance (Virtual Seismologists and OnSite) and Decision Module performance (ShakeAlert).

CTC Interactive Performance Summaries

Prior to September 2011, CTC testing center produced interactive test results for individual EEW algorithms. These results lack information about the integrated ShakeAlert system. The most recent CTC development, described above, now include evaluation information about both individual algorithms as well as overall ShakeAlert performance. The interactive CTC performance summaries produced in the past are posted below, but this software is no longer under active development.

Interactive performance summaries are produced with a specific version of the CTC software in order to manage changes and improvements to the CTC processing software. These performance summaries are cumulative, with later summaries containing more events. Interactive results are reproducible by scientists as both the input EEW performance reports, and processing source code, are available from the CTC testing center.

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