AI developed by Google and Harvard could help predict earthquake aftershocks

After the shock of an earthquake, aftershocks can wreak serious havoc too.

These subsequent quakes can last for weeks and months, and while scientists have developed models to try to detect their size and timing, figuring out where these aftershocks will hit is more difficult.

In a study published in Nature by a team from Google and Harvard, deep learning was utilized to help predict where these aftershocks hit.

The researchers trained a neural network on more than 131,000 mainshock–aftershock pairs, then selected unrelated 30,000 pairs for a test.  Read more…

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