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Rachel Keenan

AI earthquake analysis can forecast aftershock risk in seconds, Edinburgh Uni study shows

Edinburgh University was involved with the research (David Cheskin/PA) - (PA Archive)

Earthquake forecasting tools powered by AI can forecast the risk of aftershocks seconds after the initial tremor, a new study from Edinburgh University suggests.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, British Geological Survey and University of Padua created the AI-driven forecasting tools which were developed by training machine learning models on earthquake data.

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