The 2 strong earthquakes of July 14, 2019 – the first a 6.6-magnitude off the western coast of Australia and the second a 7.3-magnitude in Indonesia – happened along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/earthquakes-australia-indonesia-ring-of-fire-july-14-2019…
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3 questions seismologists are asking after the California earthquakes
After back-to-back quakes, scientists are scrambling to figure out which faults ruptured and what it means for future California quake activity. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/california-earthquakes-raise-questions-future-tectonic-activity4…
SoCal Has An 8% Chance of Another Huge Quake This Week
Even so, the chance of big quakes near Ridgecrest, California, decreases with time. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65893-big-socal-earthquake-odds.html
California shakes from 2nd big quake in 2 days
An earthquake scientist said of the recent 2 big California earthquakes, “… the M6.4 was a foreshock. This was a M7.1 on the same fault … part of the same sequence.” She added it will not trigger another large earthquake outside the Ridgecrest, California, area. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/southern-california-earthquakes-july-2019…
An Even Larger Quake Just Rocked Southern California. Experts Say the Fault System Is Growing.
This time, a magnitude-7.1 temblor struck the region near Ridgecrest, California. Experts say the next one could be even bigger. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65883-bigger-quake-strikes-southern-california.html
As Aftershocks Rattle Southern California, a More Powerful Earthquake Could Soon Strike, Experts Warn
Southern California was rattled by a magnitude 6.4 quake on Thursday (July 4). Bigger quakes could be coming soon. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65876-aftershocks-ridgecrest-earthquake-coming.html
California Earthquake Brings Scattered Damage
The strongest earthquake to hit Southern California in 20 years left scattered damage Thursday morning and was felt from Las Vegas to Orange County, the US Geological Survey reported. From a report: The quake, with an early magnitude of 6.4, was centered near Ridgecrest, a community west of the Mojave Desert and about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. Reports of…
Hacker Who Launched DDoS Attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam Gets 27 Months in Prison
An anonymous reader shares a report: A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week to 27 months in prison for a series of DDoS attacks that took down online gaming service providers like Sony’s PlayStation Network, Valve’s Steam, Microsoft’s Xbox, EA, Riot Games, Nintendo, Quake Live, DOTA2, and League of Legends servers, along with many others. Named Austin Thompson, but…
DeepMind’s AI Beats Humans At Quake III Arena
“A team of programmers at a British artificial intelligence company has designed automated ‘agents’ that taught themselves how to play the seminal first-person shooter Quake III Arena, and became so good they consistently beat human beings,” reports AFP: The work of the researchers from DeepMind, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, was described in a paper published in Science…
DeepMind’s AI gamer is a better teammate than human players
DeepMind’s new gaming AI has learned to play Quake III Arena cooperatively with teammates, and performs better than human players Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2204978-deepminds-ai-gamer-is-a-better-teammate-than-human-players/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…