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LLM Extracts Historical California Earthquake Data as “Digital Archivist” | Seismological Society of America

Summary by seismosoc.org
1 July 2026—From a massive but messy collection of reports from people who felt the 1957 magnitude-5.3 Daly City, California earthquake, researchers used the large language model Gemini 2.5 Pro to extract data that allowed them to create a shaking intensity map for an earthquake that rocked the San Francisco Bay Area almost 70 years ago. The process that turned Gemini into a “digital archivist” was developed by a California high school student. …
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seismosoc.org broke the news on Wednesday, July 1, 2026.
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