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Early Warning: GPS Data Could Detect Large Earthquakes Hours Before They Happen

29 points| mareko | 2 years ago |scitechdaily.com

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[+] aorist|2 years ago|reply
It looks from Figure 3 that they fit a sinusoidal curve to the data, and then fit an exponential to the residuals of *that* fit. That exponential shows a sharp increase from hour -2, but the curve is not a good fit to the rest of the data, and it almost has to show an increase somewhere because of the functional form.

I would have assumed the way to evaluate this method would be to back-test it: figure out when in the past this would have predicted that there would be an earthquake, and measure the accuracy/precision/etc. of that prediction.

It often surprises me how often disciplines don't have take a predictive approach by convention: if you make predictions at least it's possible to be *wrong*.

[+] flemhans|2 years ago|reply
Omg that web site is horrendous. Had to give up reading the article.