GlobalQuake is an experimental application allowing real-time monitoring of earthquakes. It collects publicly available data from seismic stations worldwide and approximates the position and magnitude of detected earthquakes. The application's performance is limited by the function computing the earthquake's origin: the function's input is the amplitude and arrival time of detected seismic waves, and it computes the location from which the waves are spread. As the earthquakes are presented in real-time, limited performance implies only a limited number of seismic stations, which can be included in the computation.

The goal of this thesis is to design a GPU-accelerated code for earthquake origin detection, its integration into GlobalQuake, and evaluation of performance improvement.