I cannot even begin to understand how this could happen :/. Computers barely existed in 1925, let alone the internet. How could this old quake resurface seemingly randomly now ? Why was the event sent to the media dated 2025 when we're in 2017 ?
> The federal body said work it was doing to revise and update information about where the historic quake struck had caused computer systems to misinterpret the data and think it was seeing a novel event.
It doesn't seem that implausible for a program to be reading through a dataset and issue a notice for a measurement above some value. If the dataset encoded years in just two digits, it (almost) makes sense that the program would report it 100 years off.
Imagine:
with open(file) as f:
for record in f:
year, month, day, time, magnitude = record.split()
if magnitude > 5:
raise_alarm()
And one can customize the alerts based on region and magnitude, and you can even set nighttime sleep modes to ignore events under a certain magnitude! It's a well put-together service from my perspective.
I get Earthquake alerts from USGS in my email. I saw that alert and was like "Oh crap!", but then it was rescinded a minute later. I don't live in CA, but I would hate for that to happen to folks.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 36.5 ms ] threadSeems like a very broken system to me...
It doesn't seem that implausible for a program to be reading through a dataset and issue a notice for a measurement above some value. If the dataset encoded years in just two digits, it (almost) makes sense that the program would report it 100 years off.
Imagine:
Y2K rears its head yet again?
Global alerts are pretty infrequent, so it doesn't hurt to sign up for this if it's something you have a passing interest in.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
lol who knew it would be so easy to get into AI. I can use my templating skills (or mail merge for that matter)