We know the quakes are coming. We just don’t know how to tell enough people early enough to avoid the catastrophe ahead. Around the world more than 13,000 people are killed each year by earthquakes, and almost 5 million have their lives affected by injury or loss of property. Add to that $12 billion a year in economic losses to the global economy (the average annual toll between 1980 and 2008).

Big Data in Practice: How 45 Successful Companies Used Big Data Analytics to Deliver Extraordinary Results

Book’s content:
38 Google: How Big Data Is At The Heart Of Google’s Business Model 243
39 Terra Seismic: Using Big Data To Predict Earthquakes 251
40 Apple: How Big Data Is At The Centre Of Their Business 255
41 Twitter: How Twitter And IBM Deliver Customer Insights From Big Data 261

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Terra Seismic can predict most major earthquakes (M6.2 or greater) at least 2 – 5 months before they will strike. Global earthquake prediction is based on determinations of the stressed areas that will start to behave abnormally before major earthquakes. We observed that geophysical patterns of earthquake development and stress accumulation are generally the same for all key seismic regions. Thus, the same earthquake prediction methodologies and systems can be applied successfully worldwide. Our technology has been used to test data gathered since 1970 retrospectively and it successfully detected about 90 percent of all significant quakes over the last 50 years.

This paper provides theoretical and practical arguments regarding the possibility of predicting strong and major earthquakes worldwide. An integrated approach is used to identify anomalies and make predictions, including satellite remote sensing techniques and data from ground-based instruments. Terabytes of information are currently processed daily with many different multi-parametric prediction systems applied thereto. Alerts are issued if anomalies are confirmed by a few different systems.

MAJOR EARTHQUAKES can be predicted thanks to ‘Big Data’, used to determine where the next devastating tremors will strike, a Nobel Prize nominee has said.