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How a New AI Model Helps Volcanic History Rise from the Ashes

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Volcano detectives use artificial intelligence to sleuth out ancient secrets in Alaska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In 1912 a volcano in Alaska more than blew its top.

0:25.0

Known as Nova Rupta, it was responsible for the most powerful

0:30.0

volcanic eruption of the 20th century. And the reason we care about the big eruptions

0:35.0

because they're also the ones that scale to the biggest hazards and biggest impacts

0:40.0

both locally and regionally, sometimes globally.

0:45.0

Chris D Wallace is a research geologist with the US Geological Survey at the Alaska Volcano

0:50.4

Observatory.

0:53.0

We often don't have access to the deep history, the old history.

0:56.1

We only have the last 10 or 12,000 years.

0:59.2

Glaciers wiped everything else away.

1:01.7

And so because we can't study those, we can't really

1:06.1

speak to the biggest eruptions through the history of the volcano.

1:09.8

Now scientists believe they've found a way to sloothe out the deep history of

1:15.3

volcanoes such as Novarupa and they're doing it with artificial intelligence.

1:20.5

You're listening to Scientific Americans Science Quickly.

1:25.0

I'm Emily Schwang.

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