AI Can Now Predict Earthquakes, Start Rescue Operation And Save Countless Lives
Chinese authorities are working on an earthquake prediction system that harnesses the power of AI to measure seismic activity. The system is currently being texted in one of the most earthquake-prone areas in the world -- in the provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan in the southwest of China. This location was also the place where China witnessed its last major earthquake with a magnitude of 8 that claimed lives of around 90,000 people.
We have already seen the powers possessed by Artificial Intelligence that is making complicated and time-consuming processes get over accurately, in an instant And now, it will soon be used to detect earthquakes way before they occur and save thousands of lives.
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Chinese authorities are working on an earthquake prediction system that harnesses the power of AI to measure seismic activity. The system is currently being texted in one of the most earthquake-prone areas in the world -- in the provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan in the southwest of China. This location was also the place where China witnessed its last major earthquake with a magnitude of 8 that claimed lives of around 90,000 people.
The system has been developed by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China and the China Earthquake Administration. It analyses massive volumes of seismic data to better predict impending earthquakes.
This system promises to reduce the death toll by earthquakes in the future by warning the authorities about the earthquake beforehand so that they can undertake necessary safety operations on time, shut down nuclear plants if any etc.
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Current methods of predicting earthquakes aren¡¯t very accurate and can only estimate the occurrence in a particular area within a certain number of years. Human experts today can only estimate factors like epicentre and magnitude of an earthquake by sensing the vibrations within the earth¡¯s crust, but this new system intends to automate the whole process.
Moreover, as of now, it has shown stellar accuracy in 446 earthquake assessments when compared to manual computing methods, as reported by STDaily -- the official newspaper of China¡®s Ministry of Science and Technology.
The system will be put on a trial for a year and if everything goes well, it¡¯ll be deployed across the whole nation. Moreover, researchers are in talks with earthquake-prone countries like Japan, Mexico, and Turkey to test and implement the system.
