Google’s AI Division and Harvard University have used information from 199 major earthquakes to create an AI model that predicts the location of aftershocks 1989 after such events. According to results published in the journal Nature, researchers found it to be a more accurate method than that currently used to predict them. Though not able to factor in earthquakes produced by natural disasters such as a volcanic eruption, those involved aim for the AI model to help understand what causes the main seismic incidents. Moving forward, the model will be trained using data from future earthquakes.
Google’s AI Division and Harvard University have used information from 199 major earthquakes to create an AI model that predicts the location of aftershocks up to one year after such events. According to results published in the journal Nature, researchers found it to be a more accurate method than that currently used to predict them. Though not able to factor in earthquakes produced by natural disasters such as a volcanic eruption, those involved aim for the AI model to help understand what causes the main seismic incidents. Moving forward, the model will be trained using data from future earthquakes.