86,000 secret earthquakes discovered under Yellowstone

"What made this study different from all earlier ones is that the AI program found every little shake and placed them on a highly accurate 3D map, so scientists could finally see the unseen seismic patterns of Yellowstone when nothing dangerous is going on. The results proved Yellowstone has a steady, repeating 'heartbeat' of water-driven swarms that come and go in the same neighborhoods every few years, exactly the normal behavior scientists had hoped to see, with no sign of a coming eruption."

"However, scientists believe this AI breakthrough will be critical in detecting hidden earthquake patterns in volcanos and fault lines which are early warning signs of a much more dangerous problem. This includes spotting swarms starting much deeper, lasting longer, or moving in abnormal ways that could reveal magma moving or a big fault like California's San Andreas getting ready to rupture."

"An international research team used artificial intelligence ( AI) to listen to 15 years of Yellowstone recordings and discovered 86,000 tiny earthquakes that human experts had missed. That's about 10 times more quakes than anyone knew were happening. At Yellowstone, these hidden earthquakes showed that more than half happened in connected groups called swarms, caused almost entirely by hot underground water and steam pushing through cracks, not by rising lava."

An international research team used artificial intelligence to analyze 15 years of Yellowstone seismic recordings and identified over 86,000 previously undetected tiny earthquakes. More than half of those events occurred in connected swarms driven almost entirely by hot underground water and steam pushing through cracks, not by rising lava. The AI program detected every small event and located them on a highly accurate 3D map, revealing a steady, repeating 'heartbeat' of water-driven swarms that recur in the same neighborhoods every few years with no signs of an imminent eruption. The AI fingerprint enables earlier detection of anomalous, deeper, or migrating seismic activity that could signal magma movement or fault rupture.

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