Short-term earthquake forecast - chronicle of the startup "TRON"
Year 2025
- June 23 — Launch of English interface for https://un-simulator.blogspot.com/
- June 19 — Rejected registration on Sber Unity — requires MVP and legal entity
- June 18 — Created PDF pitch for Startech Awards registration
- June 17 — Article published: “Animal forecasters: how organisms predict disasters”
- June 7 — Updated Japanese-language site
- June 4 — Seed-stage investment memorandum published
- May 29–30 — Participated in Startup Bazaar
- May 1 — 17 AI-generated questions about the TRON technology
- April 28 — Application submitted for STARTUP VILLAGE 2025
- March 11 — Tohoku Earthquake Memorial (Japan)
- March 1 — Boosty page launched for fundraising
- February 16 — Created blog Almaty: Earthquake Forecasting
- January — Started writing a new book with DeepSeek AI: “Life at the Fracture of Times” — about the fate of TRON technology
Year 2024
- December 6 — Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT joins the TRON project
Year 2023
- February 18 — Comment on article about Turkey earthquakes
- February 10 — “Alphabet of Signs” — Day 4 after the Turkey–Syria earthquake
- February 6 — 89.4% of victims in Turkey could have been saved
Year 2022
- August 3 — “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” — TRON startup roadmap
Scientific research on earthquake prediction via TRON - August 1 — Launch of team “Turquoise Swan”
- July 15–29 — Work in “Technology” team at ReForum online marathon
- June 22 — Publications and studies:
Potential short-term earthquake forecasting by farm-animal monitoring
Is It Possible to Predict Strong Earthquakes?
Animal-inspired seismic data processing with MEL spectrogram - April 26 — Earthquake prediction: unanswered questions
- April 4 — Startup contest results. TRON takes 2nd place.
Year 2021
- Nov 29 – Dec 19: Participated in Play4Wins accelerator hackathon
- March — The Japanese pray for victims of past earthquakes. Everyone does.
- Japan 2021: The U.S. is to blame for Japanese earthquakes
- Feb 26, 2021 — Facebook post (Israel): הודים, יהודים, ישראלים: האם תעזור להציל את ילדיך?
- Mar 26, 2021 — Russia: Response to EdTech Challenge by Moscow Innovation Cluster
- TRON technology overview available on:
Boshin blog, Zealand-New, Ig Nobel archive, UN Simulator, Japanese EQ blog
Year 2020
Year 2019
- Request to the Data Transfer Project (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Apple)
- Inquiry to the World Wide Web Foundation
- Russia, MSU 2019: Current state and limits of short-term EQ forecasting reviewed. Conclusion: not realizable.
- Israel 2019: Correspondence with portal FakeJews
- June 18, 2019 — USA: Seismological Society of America bulletin:
Is Japanese folklore about deep-sea fish a real earthquake predictor?
Year 2018
- USA 2018: Request to the Data Transfer Project (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Apple)
- April 19, 2018 — USA: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America — Can animals predict earthquakes? (review article)
- Medium 2018: How to accurately predict the time, place and strength of earthquakes
Year 2017
- Russia, Vladivostok: Mysterious earthquake in Primorye
- Russia: Crowdfunding attempt to test TRON technology
- Russia, Vladivostok: Hackathon by Social Technology Greenhouse
- Israel: Proposal to establish Centers for short-term EQ forecasting
- Japan: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED)
- Internet community:
Discussion with Facebook group “Earthquakes & Other Disasters Worldwide”
- §1 How do you know if he can’t predict if you never tested it?
- §2 First they ignore you, then they laugh, then they fight you. Then you win.
- §3 ...then they FIGHT you...
- §3.14 TRON is not a placebo panacea
- §4 Every advanced tech feels like magic
- §6 There is no Putin, no Trump, no ISIL — only TRON
- §7 Ask not what God can do for you...
- §8 Notes of an unrecognized genius
- Russia: “I really did a lot to save innocent lives”
Year 2015
Year 2014
- May 9: "Animals save us from earthquakes" — published on Russia’s executive portal
- Russia, Vladivostok: Offsite session of the Skolkovo Center
- Russia: TRON proposal to Russian managers
- Russia: Venture accelerator Askcap — TRON application
- Russia: Venture accelerator Spark — TRON application
- Russia: Request to the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Year 2013
- China: allocates $300 million to create an earthquake prediction system
- HSE{13K} Finalists — business plan competition
- Russia: Innovation Alley competition
- Russia: Answers to the questions that don’t exist
- Russia: TRON participation attempt in Business Innovation Technology competition
Year 2012
- Russia: TRON proposal to Russian executives
- Russia: Online conference with the Consul General of Japan
Year 2011
- Forbes 2011: First publication about TRON earthquake forecasting technology
- China: International Radio broadcast — call to Chinese entrepreneurs
- March 11, 2011 — Great East Japan Earthquake
Earlier events
- 2009 — Italy, L'Aquila: Rachel Grant accidentally observed toads leaving a lake prior to an earthquake
- 2008 — Israel: Patent WO/2008/053463 granted for earthquake prediction based on animal behavior
- 2001 — Russia: “The Internet as the Environment for Artificial Intelligence” — first proposal linking internet use with earthquake prediction
- 1975 — China, Haicheng: The only officially predicted earthquake in modern history
