This AI System Can Predict Earthquakes
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to successfully predict earthquakes, an advance that can help prepare for natural disasters and potentially save lives.
The study, published in the journal Geophysical Review Letters, identified a hidden signal that led up to earthquakes and used this fingerprint to train a machine learning algorithm to predict future earthquakes.
Researchers at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and Boston University in the US studied the interactions between earthquakes, precursor quakes and faults, disturbances, hoping to develop a method for predicting earthquakes.
Using a lab-based system that mimics real earthquakes, they used machine learning techniques to analyze the acoustic signals that came from the disturbance as ...