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EarthquakeNet uses neural networks for improved seismic forecasting

Researchers have developed a new neural network architecture called EarthquakeNet to improve the forecasting of weekly earthquake occurrences. This model addresses limitations in standard approaches by estimating an endogenous per-cell overdispersion parameter, capturing spatial heterogeneity in seismic clustering. Evaluations show EarthquakeNet reduces prediction errors by 8.6% compared to existing methods, with a 12.5% improvement in forecasting extreme events. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel neural network architecture for seismic forecasting, potentially improving accuracy and risk assessment for extreme events.

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Neural Negative Binomial Regression for Weekly Seismicity Forecasting: Per-Cell Dispersion Estimation and Tail Risk Assessment

    Standard approaches to forecasting the weekly number of earthquakes on a spatial grid rely on the Poisson distribution with a single global dispersion assumption. We show that this assumption is systematically violated in seismic data from Central Asia (2010-2024), where a likeli…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Alim Igilik ·

    Neural Negative Binomial Regression for Weekly Seismicity Forecasting: Per-Cell Dispersion Estimation and Tail Risk Assessment

    arXiv:2605.21437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard approaches to forecasting the weekly number of earthquakes on a spatial grid rely on the Poisson distribution with a single global dispersion assumption. We show that this assumption is systematically violated in seismic …

  3. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Alim Igilik ·

    Neural Negative Binomial Regression for Weekly Seismicity Forecasting: Per-Cell Dispersion Estimation and Tail Risk Assessment

    Standard approaches to forecasting the weekly number of earthquakes on a spatial grid rely on the Poisson distribution with a single global dispersion assumption. We show that this assumption is systematically violated in seismic data from Central Asia (2010-2024), where a likeli…