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Chapter 341 It's Scary

After obtaining Shen Qi's consent, the American "Science" weekly included Shen Qi's paper "Research on New Earthquake Models" and sent reporters to interview Shen Qi.

The current if value of "Science" is 37.212, a little lower than "Nature". They have rejected Shen Qi's condensed matter theory essay before, because Shen Qi wrote it too profoundly and highly theoretically, and is not suitable for most ordinary readers to read.

In this article "Research on New Earthquake Models", Shen Qi's writing style is more popular. He omits the long-term discussion of complex mathematical deductions and calculations. Most people with university knowledge can understand what he writes.

System: "New Achievement! The host published a theory article on science, and the basic reward is 50,000 points for the top student, multiplied by the if value 37.212, and the final reward is 1860,600 points for the top student."

Seismology belongs to a branch of physics, and the points of more than one.8 million academic masters are calculated on physics.

"Professor Chen, how do you evaluate the famous paper "Earthquakes cannot be predicted" published last year in Nature?"

"This is a misleading." Shen Qi said very directly. He did not agree with the views of the famous seismologists: "The article "Earthquake Unpredictable" puts forward two assumptions. One is that since most people believe that earthquakes are a self-organized critical phenomenon, earthquakes cannot be predicted. The second is that the earthquake forecast has not been successful so far, so it will not be successful in the future."

"Haha." Shen Qi smiled and said, "If the earthquake cannot be predicted from these two assumptions, then physics has no meaning to exist, and seismology should be classified under philosophy or theology."

"Many seismic models that study self-organization criticality use the spring-slider model, namely the Bridge-Nopov model, which does not consider the physical problems and mathematical processing of earthquakes well."

"For example, what kind of mathematical and physical model relationship exists between aftershocks and main shocks can be denied and quantitatively described? You should know that many earthquakes we encounter are actually aftershocks of previous major earthquakes. You cannot simply use self-organizing criticality theory to draw conclusions that earthquakes cannot be predicted." Shen Qi expounded his academic views.

The reporter pointed out the key points in the small notebook: "So Professor Chen's research results and forecast accuracy gave a heavy blow to the 'earthquake cannot predict the group'."

Shen Qi: "Hey, man, you said this, I haven't said it."

The reporter asked again: "As far as I know, in addition to warning the New Zealand Earthquake Network, Professor Chen also sent a similar warning email to the US Earthquake Network and the Russian Earthquake Network on the same day?"

The media was so well-informed. Shen Qi knew that he could not hide this matter, so he simply said: "Yes, one day more than a month ago, I sent three emails to the American Earthquake Network, Russian Earthquake Network, and New Zealand Earthquake Network, providing coordinates everywhere."

"Okay, thank you." The reporter's interview mission ended.

After the interview draft of "Science" with Shen Qi was published, experts and scholars who "the earthquake cannot be predicted" were unhappy.

Professor Wellington, a head of the "Earthquake Unpredictable School" who once published an article in Nature, delivered a public speech: "I don't think Shen Qi's so-called new earthquake model is better than the classic model. Yes, he guessed that the 5.5-magnitude earthquake in the waters 188 kilometers south of Campbell Island, and everyone will encounter it once or twice, which does not prove anything."

The US Earthquake Network and the Russian Earthquake Network are on the wait-and-see attitude. They tell the people not to easily believe anyone’s remarks. The only authoritative and responsible warning information will only come from their own governments.

Shen Qi remained silent. He entered the field of nonlinear dynamics research and devoted himself to studying, only seeking to find the two key keys: time and intensity.

Ou Ye became more and more uneasy. She secretly went to the hospital for examination after not having her period for two months.

The examination results showed that Ou Ye was not pregnant. The doctor also pointed out: "Miss Ou, you are very anxious, and this is not good for your health."

Anxiety scares away my aunt, and women's intuitions are sometimes inexplicably accurate.

Just one hour after Ou Ye left the hospital, the International Earthquake Center released the latest news:

"Around 19:03 GMT today, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in the Richter 7.0 earthquake in the 127 kilometers west of the Corab Reef in the South Pacific (55 degrees 47 minutes south latitude, 164 degrees 11 minutes west longitude), with a focal depth of 38 kilometers."

The predicted coordinates given by Shen Qi were 55 degrees south latitude and 167 degrees west longitude.

This coordinate is located in the heart of the South Pacific Ocean. There are no human settlements within a radius of 2,000 kilometers. Sometimes scientific research ships and whaling ships pass by.

Korab Reef is a coral reef that is completely unsuitable for human survival. Its existence is a reference coordinate for scientists and navigators.

Just now, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in the waters west of Kolabu Reef. The coordinates of 55 degrees south latitude coincided with Shen Qi's prediction, and the longitude deviation was 3 degrees.

This strong earthquake triggered a highly destructive earthquake and tsunami. The huge waves were as high as ten meters, and no living creatures were left wherever they passed.

Fortunately, there were no humans where the tsunami passed, and all marine creatures hid under the sea.

The international earthquake has been earthquakes, and the world is shocked.

The earthquake occurred in the sea area near the two coordinate points in the southern hemisphere given by Shen Qi, one was magnitude 5.5 and the other was magnitude 7.0.

"This...is an earthquake again..." Even Shen Qi himself was shocked, even a little worried.

The epicenter latitude of the Kolabu Reef earthquake is consistent with the data calculated by Shen Qi, and the deviation in longitude is the deviation in the east-west direction.

There are two coordinates left that have not been confirmed. They are both located in the Bering Sea in the northern hemisphere and belong to the United States and Russia.

What Shen Qi is most worried about is the safety of lives and property of the residents on Nikolskoye Island in Russia.

One of the coordinate points (55 degrees north latitude and 167 degrees east longitude) is only 50 kilometers away from Nikolskoye Island. Considering the prediction error, the epicenter may be on the island.

“It’s really unbelievable.”

Shen Qi spread the world map and took a pencil to connect the four coordinate points on the map: (55 degrees north latitude, 167 degrees east longitude), (55 degrees north latitude, 167 degrees west longitude), (55 degrees south latitude, 167 degrees east longitude), and (55 degrees south latitude, 167 degrees west longitude).

The figure obtained by connecting four points is a square, and it is logical that the seismic zone should not be distributed in this way.

There is also a possibility that humans do not really understand the principles of seismic zones and seismic models.

We created our own systematic seismology theory, but we cannot avoid earthquakes from causing harm to us.

The next day, Shen Qi saw on TV news that 22 residents on Nikolskoye Island in Russia, under the organization of the Russian government, evacuated the island in an orderly manner...
Chapter completed!
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