Detecting Earthquakes: AI vs. Citizen Scientists

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SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. There are over 13,000 active seismic stations out there, producing far more data than seismologists have time to go through. So, researchers set up a showdown of humans versus machines to sift through all this information and, in the process, crown the heavyweight earthquake detection champion. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Adam, Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Melida Williams ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.00321/full www.zooniverse.org/projects/vivitang/earthquake-detective www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10507021.1 www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/stations?sta_list=&stnsearch=GLOBAL&stn_ctr_lat=&stn_ctr_lon=&stn_radius=&max_stn_dist_units=deg&stn_bot_lat=&stn_top_lat=&stn_left_lon=&stn_right_lon=&stn_srn=&stn_grn= www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054648?journalCode=earth pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70192475 earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/background.php Images: www.istockphoto.com/photo/earthquake-seismogram-recording-by-a-seismograph-image-gm184093354-1828513 www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/apartment-earthquake-shaking-bmzzumdrqjowveyvg www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/mesh-earthquake-macslkl www.istockphoto.com/vector/vector-illustration-of-an-abstract-scheme-which-contains-people-icons-gm1247980427-363437930 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JAGI_Waveform_-_19_August_2018.gif www.istockphoto.com/vector/earthquake-wave-seismograph-vector-gm1047684770-280241725 www.istockphoto.com/vector/3d-neural-network-with-six-layers-gm1165885651-320957853 www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/silhouette-of-people-rejoicing-and-lifting-up-his-hands-a-group-of-successful-businessmen-happy-and-celebrate-the-victory-on-the-roof-of-the-business-center-slow-motion-hhrqhg5lzj2tckekb www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/animation-of-seismic-energy-wave-pattern-with-earthquake-ripple-s77fuidixjnhg69pr www.istockphoto.com/vector/abstract-network-background-particle-wave-blockchain-neural-network-gm1195230552-340619965 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2893 www.istockphoto.com/vector/businesswoman-and-robot-shaking-hands-gm1141452215-305810039

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