Yes, this also made me immediately think of that chapter in Nate Silver's book ("The Signal and the Noise"). Considering what I remember Nate's musings on the t

Yes, this also made me immediately think of that chapter in Nate Silver's book ("The Signal and the Noise"). Considering what I remember Nate's musings on the topic to be, I highly doubt that this is a particularly significant improvement in earthquake prediction. Sure, with the ability to crunch more numbers than ever before, AI can no doubt up the accuracy a bit. However, same as with the non-AI techniques that it's built upon, only a big-ish improvement in our fundamental understanding of tectonics, and/or a big-ish improvement in the physical sensors that feed data into the models, is really going to move the needle in this space.