{"id":11862,"date":"2025-10-01T08:58:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=11862"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:16:49","slug":"georgia-southern-researchers-break-new-ground-in-earthquake-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2025\/10\/01\/georgia-southern-researchers-break-new-ground-in-earthquake-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Southern Researchers Break New Ground in Earthquake Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers with the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing are now able to predict earthquake magnitude more than a month away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yiming Ji, Ph.D., Lei Chen, Ph.D., Christopher Kadlec, Ph.D., and Cimil Yavas can now deliver those predictions with 97.97% accuracy by using machine-learning algorithms and neural network techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe inspiration for this research stemmed from the urgent need to improve earthquake prediction accuracy,\u201d Yavas said. \u201cEarthquakes pose significant risks to densely populated regions, impacting public safety, infrastructure and the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yavas and his mentors are optimistic that innovation in prediction techniques, such as machine learning and neural networks, can mitigate its destructive effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur goal is to make machine learning a central tool in earthquake forecasting and to inspire continued advancements in AI applications for natural disaster preparedness worldwide,\u201d said Kadlec.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/earthquake-prediction-researchers-550x454.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers in earthquake prevention; Cemil Yavas, Christopher Kadlec, Ph.D., Yiming Ji, Ph.D., and Lei Chen, Ph.D.\" class=\"wp-image-11858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/earthquake-prediction-researchers-550x454.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/earthquake-prediction-researchers-250x206.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/earthquake-prediction-researchers-100x83.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/earthquake-prediction-researchers-768x634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/earthquake-prediction-researchers.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: (L to R) Researchers Cemil Yavas, Christopher Kadlec, Ph.D., Yiming Ji, Ph.D., and Lei Chen, Ph.D.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers with the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing are now able to predict earthquake magnitude more than a month away. Yiming Ji, Ph.D., Lei Chen, Ph.D., Christopher Kadlec, Ph.D., and Cimil Yavas can now deliver those predictions with 97.97% accuracy by using machine-learning algorithms and neural network techniques. \u201cThe inspiration for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":898,"featured_media":11858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-spring-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}