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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2020, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 142-152.doi: 10.12196/j.issn.1000-3274.2020.03.011

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Application of Support Vector Machine Model Optimized by Principal Component Analysis and Genetic Algorithm in the Prediction of Earthquake Casualties

WANG Chen-hui1, LIU Li-shen1, REN Jia1, YUAN Ying2, WANG Li-bing1, CHEN Kai-nan1   

  1. 1. Hongshan Benchmark Seismic Station, Hebei Earthquake Agency, Xingtai 054000, China;
    2. School of Prospecting Technology & Engineering, Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050031, China
  • Received:2019-07-16 Online:2020-07-31 Published:2020-07-28

Abstract: The prediction of earthquake casualties involves many influencing factors, such as heavy computation, complicated model training, etc. In order to solve these problems, support vector machine (SVM) model optimized by genetic algorithm (GA) based on principle component analysis (PCA) was proposed. PCA was used to reduce the number of earthquake casualties influencing factors, and abandon those principal components with low contribution. The principal components with high contribution were used as input variables of SVM, and earthquake casualties were taken as output variable. Then GA was used to optimize the SVM parameters. Finally the prediction model for earthquake casualties based on PCA-GA-SVM was established, and used to predict the test samples. The result shows that the average prediction accuracy and operation efficiency of PCA-GA-SVM model respectively increased by 4.73%, 1.14%, 9.99% and 47.05%, 36.76%, 44.55% compared with prediction results of SVM model, GA-SVM model and PCA-GA-BP model. Therefore, the PCA-GA-SVM model has high prediction accuracy and strong generalization ability, which can predict earthquake casualties scientifically and reasonably.

Key words: Prediction of earthquake casualties, Principal component analysis, Genetic algorithm, Support vector machine

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