{"id":111566,"date":"2020-08-18T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T02:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/machine-learning-unearths-signature-of-slow-slip-quake-origins-in-seismic-data"},"modified":"2020-08-18T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T02:55:30","slug":"machine-learning-unearths-signature-of-slow-slip-quake-origins-in-seismic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/machine-learning-unearths-signature-of-slow-slip-quake-origins-in-seismic-data","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning unearths signature of slow-slip quake origins in seismic data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-unearths-signature-of-slow-slip-quake-origins-in-seismic-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Combing through historical seismic data, researchers using a machine learning model have unearthed distinct statistical features marking the formative stage of slow-slip ruptures in the earth\u2019s crust months before tremor or GPS data detected a slip in the tectonic plates. Given the similarity between slow-slip events and classic earthquakes, these distinct signatures may help geophysicists understand the timing of the devastating faster quakes as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/machine+learning+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">machine learning model<\/a> found that, close to the end of the slow slip cycle, a snapshot of the data is imprinted with fundamental information regarding the upcoming failure of the system,\u201d said Claudia Hulbert, a computational geophysicist at ENS and the Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author of the study, published today in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>. \u201cOur results suggest that slow-slip rupture may well be predictable, and because slow slip events have a lot in common with earthquakes, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/slow-slip+events\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">slow-slip events<\/a> may provide an easier way to study the fundamental physics of earth rupture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slow-slip events are earthquakes that gently rattle the ground for days, months, or even years, do not radiate large-amplitude seismic waves, and often go unnoticed by the average person. The classic quakes most people are familiar with rupture the ground in minutes. In a given area they also happen less frequently, making the bigger quakes harder to study with the data-hungry machine learning techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combing through historical seismic data, researchers using a machine learning model have unearthed distinct statistical features marking the formative stage of slow-slip ruptures in the earth\u2019s crust months before tremor or GPS data detected a slip in the tectonic plates. Given the similarity between slow-slip events and classic earthquakes, these distinct signatures may help geophysicists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}