Technology Overview

Terra Seismic is a satellite Big Data, Earth observation, and media company that provides services for global earthquake prediction, offering new solutions to mitigate earthquake and tsunami risks in over one hundred countries. Since 2012, we have been developing unparalleled global technology capable of processing and analyzing terabytes of information daily to make predictions.

The Company can predict most major earthquakes (M6.2 or greater) at least 2 – 5 months in advance. We currently provide earthquake prediction for the following key earthquake-prone regions: Alaska, Balkans, California, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Greece, India, Nepal and Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Central Asia, New Zealand, Okinawa, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, and Turkey.

We develop long-term (3 to 5 years), mid-term (1 to 3 years), and short-term (1 to 12 months) global prediction systems. Terra Seismic can confidently locate the epicenter of many strong and major earthquakes within a 50-150 km radius.

Our global earthquake prediction is based on determinations of the stressed areas that will behave abnormally before major earthquakes. The Company applies various methodologies to identify abnormalities and make predictions, including satellite remote sensing methods and data from ground-based instruments.

We currently process terabytes of information daily and use more than 100 multiparameter prediction systems. Alerts are issued if at least five different systems confirm the abnormalities. 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.

To develop our prediction method, our R&D team accumulated all the available data on earthquakes, their precursors, and earthquake prediction from all sources over the last 2000 years. While some scientists concentrate most of their efforts and research on just one specific country or region, such as Japan or California, thanks to Big Data, our team can efficiently analyze data from the whole world in almost real time. We’ve discovered that reliable data for some specific regions, such as California can be successfully complemented with data from other key seismic regions. By applying a global approach based on Big Data applications, we’ve significantly increased the volume of reliable data for developing and testing completely novel theories, models, and systems.