Hearing the Mountain's Roar: How Antigravity CLI's AI Agents & IoT Data Track Volcanic Shockwaves
Published Paper: Capturing Volcanic Lamb Waves and Blast Yields with Netatmo Weather Networks (ESS Open Archive)
Abstract
Explosive volcanic eruptions generate powerful atmospheric Lamb waves—acoustic-gravity waves trapped in the planetary boundary layer that travel horizontally across the globe at sound speed. Operating on a continuous background ingest where Google Apps Script (GAS) logs 20-minute weather records to Google Drive, we mapped two benchmark historical eruptions: the 2018 phreatic blast at Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane and the 2018 magmatic explosion at Mt. Shinmoedake. We framed these events within first-principles continuum mechanics inside the Antigravity CLI environment powered by Gemini and the autonomous R&D framework tanaike-lab. Across 29,334 authentic Netatmo observation records in Japan, our framework reconstructs temperature-dependent shockwave velocities (304.38 m/s in sub-zero winter air and 313.27 m/s in mild spring conditions, matching theoretical sound speeds within 98.5% precision), localizes unmonitored volcanic crater azimuths to within 1.78 degrees, quantifies explosive yields (178.8 to 1,041.1 tons of TNT equivalent), and delivers 2.5 to 15 minutes of advance early warning with 100% false alarm elimination (0.0% False Positive Rate) during violent storm baselines. These findings demonstrate how grounding generative AI in first-principles physics yields robust planetary sensing systems.