AI can help detect earthquakes faster [Video]

Artificial intelligence is already summarizing our meetings, doing our math homework and illustrating our PowerPoints.

Now, it turns out, AI also can help detect impending earthquakes.

Point in case: In late June, a 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck near the Dead Sea in Israel — and while it may have come as a shock to some of the people who felt it, it was actually detected fairly well in advance by SeismicAI, an Israeli startup based in Tel Aviv that’s developing an AI-powered earthquake warning system.

Detecting earthquakes is the holy grail for seismologists and governments as they are notoriously difficult to predict. There are roughly 55 earthquakes a day around the world, or 20,000 a year, according to the National Earthquake Information center.

While most earthquakes are small, in the last month alone, there have been 13 significant earthquakes over magnitude 5.0, in California, Russia, Utah, Guatemala and Japan.

The biggest of …