Digital Temblors: Computer Model Successfully Forecasts Earthquake Sites

November 5, 2004 | Source: Space.com

A Southern California earthquake forecast based on computer models has successfully pinpointed the location of predicted locations for 15 of the last 16 temblors with magnitudes greater than 5.0 on the Richter scale for the last 4 years.

The computer model simulates the Southern California [seismic] network. The forecast also incorporates modeling techniques typically used for neural net and turbulence simulations.