ISRAEL - SeismicAI Detects Earthquakes Faster
Artificial intelligence is already summarizing our meetings, doing our math homework and illustrating our PowerPoints.
Now, it turns out, AI also can help detect impending earthquakes.
Point in case: In late June, a 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck near the Dead Sea in Israel—and while it may have come as a shock to some of the people who felt it, it was actually detected fairly well in advance by SeismicAI, an Israeli startup based in Tel Aviv that’s developing an AI-powered earthquake warning system.
Detecting earthquakes is the holy grail for seismologists and governments as they are notoriously difficult to predict. There are roughly 55 earthquakes a day around the world, or 20,000 a year, according to the National Earthquake Information center.
What sets SeismicAI apart from traditional earthquake detection systems is its global applicability.
Traditional systems are typically designed for specific regions and require years of local data to function effectively. SeismicAI claims its platform can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world while maintaining high accuracy.
When an event is detected, the system rapidly estimates the earthquake’s location, magnitude, and potential impact on surrounding areas.
On the private sector front, SeismicAI is making significant inroads in Central America, Europe and Asia. In Mexico, they’re in the process of deploying their solution to 250 branches of the country’s largest bank.
-www.israel21c.org, 19 August 2024
Arno's Commentary
When reading about earthquakes, we are reminded of Luke 21:11 in particular: “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Often, this is interpreted to suggest that in the end times there will be more earthquakes, more famine, and more pestilence. That, however, is not really the case. We know, for example, that pestilences to a large extent have been wiped out by modern medicine. Famine is only found in various underdeveloped countries. One source states that famine (hunger) has decreased by 50% in the last three decades.
Earthquakes are our focus. The British Geological Society (bgs.ac.uk) attempts to explain earthquakes and their frequency. The article gives three reasons why it might seem there are more earthquakes today: 1) Earthquakes in populated places are far more noticed than many that occur in remote regions. 2) Earthquake clustering: people notice the clusters; they don’t notice the gaps in between. 3) Global communication: vast improvements in global communication mean we have near instant pictures of devastating earthquakes from all around the world.
Now an Israeli company, SeismicAI, attempts to detect and identify earthquakes sooner than ever before.
From Revelation 16, we read of the greatest earthquake yet to occur: “And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great” (Revelation 16:18).
Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.
