{"id":94600,"date":"2019-08-09T07:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/volcano-forecasts-could-soon-be-a-reality-thanks-to-ai"},"modified":"2019-08-09T07:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:45:57","slug":"volcano-forecasts-could-soon-be-a-reality-thanks-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/volcano-forecasts-could-soon-be-a-reality-thanks-to-ai","title":{"rendered":"Volcano forecasts could soon be a reality, thanks to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volcano-forecasts-could-soon-be-a-reality-thanks-to-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/07\/worlds-largest-volcano-mauna-loa-tamu-massif-earth-oceans\/\">1,500 active volcanoes worldwide<\/a>, about 6 percent of them erupt each year, or 50 to 85. Less than half of all volcanoes have sensors, and even fewer are considered well-monitored, the result of high costs and difficulty in maintaining equipment in such unforgiving environments. Volcanoes that are considered dormant rarely have any monitoring, despite surprises like the 2008 eruption of the Chait\u00e9n volcano in Chile after 8,000 years of inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>Now, volcanologists are turning to satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to keep a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/10\/news-mount-etna-volcano-sliding-sea-gravity-geology\/\">closer eye on more volcanoes<\/a> and, eventually, forecast eruptions. MOUNTS (Monitoring Unrest from Space), currently tracks 18 volcanoes, including Mount Fuego in Guatemala and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/10\/news-mount-etna-volcano-sliding-sea-gravity-geology\/\">Mount Etna in Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2015\/04\/150410-tambora-volcano-eruption-climate-change-famine-earth-science\/\">800 million people living within 62 miles<\/a> of an active volcano, there are plenty of reasons to increase monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 1,500 active volcanoes worldwide, about 6 percent of them erupt each year, or 50 to 85. Less than half of all volcanoes have sensors, and even fewer are considered well-monitored, the result of high costs and difficulty in maintaining equipment in such unforgiving environments. Volcanoes that are considered dormant rarely have any monitoring, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94600","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=94600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}