Researchers used a machine-learning neural network trained on earthquake data labeled by human experts to detect the tiny earthquakes of the Cahuilla swarm in seismic records.
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- A strange earthquake swarm lasted for years. Scientists finally know ... (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/machine-learning-california-earthquake-swarm (sciencenews.org)
- https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/natural-fluid-injections-triggered-cahuilla-earthquake-swarm (caltech.edu)
- https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-they-ve-explained-a-four-year-swarm-of-earthquakes-in-california (sciencealert.com)
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