This is a significant dip compared to the 97 percent identification accuracy for the same detector when there are no earthquake tremors in the vicinity.
The study sheds light on the topic of explosion masking and how difficult it is to track it because there is very little data available.
Moreover, the scientists also found that overlapping waveforms do not just hide explosions, but they can also hide other smaller earthquakes and other seismic events.
The masking effect dropped detection to just 16 percent from 92 percent in these situations.
“This may mean that we probably underestimate a lot of the low magnitude seismicity that is sourced during a swarm or an aftershock sequence,” Carmichael said as per a report by Phys.