Can earthquakes be predicted?

Weather of Arabia - With technological and scientific progress, humans have been able to predict natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and snow storms. However, despite this progress, earthquakes are considered natural disasters that always surprise humanity and cause great losses. So why has science in the twenty-first century not been able to predict? Accurate date of the earthquake?

Earthquakes tend to occur without warning, and although scientists have tried in many ways, such as measuring shifts in subsurface sounds, possible increases in the seismic activity of the region, and changes in animal behavior, they have been unable to predict the occurrence of earthquakes.

In a previous interview with Arab Weather, the professor of geophysics and seismology at the University of Jordan, Dr. Najeeb Abu Karaki, responded by stressing that no one on the face of the earth can yet predict the time and place of an earthquake, stressing that any talk being circulated about an area being exposed to an earthquake Confirmed and destructive within a specific period of time, it has no basis in truth and is not based on scientific foundations.

In confirmation of Dr. Abu Karaki’s words, the major countries have not yet been able to find any real means that enables them to predict earthquakes, such as the United States of America, China and Japan, which in turn failed to predict the devastating earthquake that surprised them in 2011, which had a magnitude of 9 on the Richter scale, and the latest Massive destruction and tsunami waves killed thousands of people, and caused one of the largest nuclear disasters in the world, even though the area was under careful seismic monitoring.

Hence the question arises: Will the process of accurately predicting earthquakes remain impossible?

After the series of earthquakes affecting the world in the recent period, scientists' attention has been focused on finding a link between technology and the science of predictions, and perhaps artificial intelligence has taken a large part in these studies.

So that artificial intelligence techniques can find hidden patterns in data that may help predict earthquakes, and it is also possible to analyze the data by using artificial intelligence algorithms through which we can detect subtle changes in the Earth’s surface and study data that indicate the occurrence of an earthquake nearby. .

The development of earthquake prediction systems based on artificial intelligence technologies may open new horizons in the future and make natural disasters less dangerous than before.