There are over 13,000 active seismic stations out there, producing far more data than seismologists have time to go through. So, researchers set up a showdown of humans versus machines to sift through all this information and, in the process, crown the heavyweight earthquake detection champion. The project we described in this video has ended, but many scientists recruit for citizen science projects over at https://www.zooniverse.org/. There’s also the Did You Feel It project, where anyone who feels a rumble can fill out a quick survey and report it to the US Geological Survey: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/. SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Adam, Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Melida Williams ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.00321/full https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/vivitang/earthquake-detective https://www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10507021.1 http://www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/stations?sta_list=&stnsearch=GLOBAL&stn_ctr_lat=&stn_ctr_lon=&stn_radius=&max_stn_dist_units=deg&stn_bot_lat=&stn_top_lat=&stn_left_lon=&stn_right_lon=&stn_srn=&stn_grn= https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054648?journalCode=earth https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70192475 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/background.php Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/earthquake-seismogram-recording-by-a-seismograph-image-gm184093354-1828513 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/apartment-earthquake-shaking-bmzzumdrqjowveyvg https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/mesh-earthquake-macslkl https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/vector-illustration-of-an-abstract-scheme-which-contains-people-icons-gm1247980427-363437930 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JAGI_Waveform_-_19_August_2018.gif https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/earthquake-wave-seismograph-vector-gm1047684770-280241725 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/3d-neural-network-with-six-layers-gm1165885651-320957853 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/silhouette-of-people-rejoicing-and-lifting-up-his-hands-a-group-of-successful-businessmen-happy-and-celebrate-the-victory-on-the-roof-of-the-business-center-slow-motion-hhrqhg5lzj2tckekb https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/animation-of-seismic-energy-wave-pattern-with-earthquake-ripple-s77fuidixjnhg69pr https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/abstract-network-background-particle-wave-blockchain-neural-network-gm1195230552-340619965 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2893 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/businesswoman-and-robot-shaking-hands-gm1141452215-305810039