Artificial intelligence nails predictions of earthquake aftershocks

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A neural-network analysis outperforms the method scientists typically use to work out where these tremors will strike.

A machine-learning study that analysed hundreds of thousands of earthquakes beat the standard method at predicting the location of aftershocks.

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