An emergency alert warning people in the Bay Area that an estimated 5.7 magnitude earthquake was imminent lit up phones Wednesday morning, but the actual temblor turned out to be a magnitude 4.2. Dr.

Rapid and reliable magnitude estimation for large earthquakes is crucial to mitigate the risk associated with strong shaking and tsunamis. Standard early warning systems based on seismic waves cannot ...

The quadrature processing techniques employed in spectrum analysis,computer graphics, and digital communications routinely require highspeed determination of the magnitude of a complex number (vector ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Aug 06, 2020, 08:42am EDT Aug 06, 2020, 03:59pm EDT This article ...

A new method of detecting mega earthquakes, which picks up on the gravity waves they generate by using deep-learning models, can estimate earthquake magnitude in real time and provide earlier warning ...