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Data Processing Methods for 3D Seismic Imaging of Subsurface Volcanoes: Applications to the Tarim Flood Basalt

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Investigating the predictive power of seismic statistical features using ensemble learning.

Wei Quan¹, Denise Gorse¹

¹Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

|February 19, 2026

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Seismic-specific features show promise for earthquake prediction, outperforming generic time series analysis. This suggests domain knowledge is key to understanding subsurface conditions before seismic events.

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Area of Science:

Geophysics
Seismology
Data Science

Background:

Earthquake prediction is a complex challenge, often met with skepticism.
Previous studies sometimes suffer from data leakage, inflating success rates.
A prior study demonstrated predictive ability using seismic features while controlling for data leakage.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if seismic statistical features capture domain-specific knowledge for earthquake prediction.
To compare the predictive power of seismic features against generic time series features.
To validate the source of predictive information in earthquake forecasting.

Main Methods:

Compared 60 seismic statistical features against 428 generic time series features from the tsfresh package.
Utilized an XGBoost model for predicting earthquakes (magnitude M ≥ 5) within a 15-day window.
Employed rigorous methodology to prevent overfitting and data leakage.

Main Results:

Models using seismic statistical features achieved an Area Under the Curve (AUC) up to 0.87.
Models using only tsfresh generic features performed no better than random chance.
This highlights the significance of seismic-specific data in capturing pre-earthquake subsurface information.

Conclusions:

Seismic-specific features demonstrably capture valuable information for earthquake prediction.
Generic time series features lack the domain-specific insight required for effective forecasting.
Future research can enhance these seismic features for potential operational earthquake prediction.