Learning models to hybrid models to improve the
potential for more accurate seismic forecasting.
The rest of the paper is organised as follows:
Section-II presents the Literature Review, Section-III
explains the proposed methodology, Section-IV
discusses the results and its comparison, Section-V
concludes the paper and outlines the Future work.
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
In (Joshi et al., 2023), the authors have outlined the
disadvantages of the classical form of early warning
systems. According to the authors, the disadvantage
is that the system provided delayed response. This is
due to the time required for data analysis from several
stations. In this paper, the authors have focused
particularly on the ability of ML models to improve
the predictive capabilities based on the multi-
parametric relationships within the collected data.
Feature engineering is also applied in this study
resulting in 29 features derived from the initial phase
of the P wave in relation to earthquake magnitude.
From the results, it is inferred that XGBoost model
effectively enhanced the performance by giving
better prediction results, for which the average error
is lower than conventional methods. In this paper
(Asim et al., 2017), authors focused on the analysis of
earthquake magnitude prediction for the Hindukush
region through a ML classifier based on historical
data of past seismicity. Eight physical characteristics
in accordance with geophysical concepts were used to
simulate future earthquakes, specifically those
exceeding a magnitude of shake of 5.5. The authors
have used various ML methods and evaluated the
performance of the models using sensitivity and
accuracy.
The XGBoost-SC model for ground motion
prediction was developed in this paper (Dang et al.,
2024) using 67,164 data records of shallow crustal
earthquakes that occurred in Japan between 1997 and
2019. Some of the features include magnitude, depth,
Vs30, hypo-central distance, altitude, and focal
mechanism. From the results, it is inferred that
XGBoost has shown to be more successful and
outperformed traditional approaches in terms of
accuracy and stability. The result of the SHAP
analysis confirmed the importance of features and
demonstrated the model's overall value in predicting
future disaster engineering, particularly with regard to
earthquakes. The primary objective of this paper
(Dutta et al., 2011) is to develop a standard
earthquake database for the South Asian region
(1905–2009) in the context of comparing seismic
risks in low-to-moderate seismicity regions.
Specifically, the accuracy of the magnitudes greater
than five was improved using linear regression to
model the relationship between earthquake
magnitude, latitude, longitude and depth. Weka had
better performance than SPSS in the prediction of
earthquake magnitude when data was smoothed. The
results suggested that WEKA is more suitable for this
task.
In this work (Ahmed et al., 2024), several ML
techniques were applied on data obtained from the US
Geological Survey to classify earthquake magnitudes.
During data pre-processing, it was found that more
than 10 percent of the data has NULL values. Suitable
actions such as imputation and removal of “null”
feature were taken. To improve the performance of
the model, features were encoded ‘one hot’ and
feature scaling was applied. With the better
hyperparameters, the SVM model achieved the most
accurate results, with MSE of 0.10 and a coefficient
determination of 0.93. In a recent study, the effects of
earthquakes, including ground movement and
economic losses were examined. The Researchers
have used a global dataset and shaped the same using
a technique called gradient boosting regressor to
forecast earthquake events with respect to date, time
and magnitude. They broke down the predictions into
smaller components and the results were improved to
86.1% for magnitude and 99.7% for depth, which
actually surpassed previous models.
In (Wang & Wang, 2024), the authors have also
tried to determine risk-free zones to minimize loss by
comparing actual and predicted values. In
(Sadhukhan et al., 2023) , the authors have explored
the use of DL algorithms for earthquake prediction,
focusing on significant seismic magnitudes from
regions such as Japan, Indonesia and Hindu-Kush
Karakoram Himalayan (HKKH) area. Three DNN
models such as LSTM, Bidirectional LSTM and
Transformer were used to analyze the correlations
between the seismic features and possible earthquake
activities. For Japan dataset, LSTM outperformed all
the other models, while Bi-LSTM outperformed all
other models for the Indonesia region and the
transformer model outperformed all other models for
the HKKH region. The models gave good results for
predicting earthquake magnitude in the range of 3.5
to 6.0. Various studies have focused on improving
earthquake prediction using ML models. The
limitations of the existing systems are:
traditional system suffer from delayed
response