Decision Tree, Bagging and Random Forest methods detect TEC seismo-ionospheric anomalies around the time of the Chile, (Mw = 8.8) earthquake of 27 February 2010

In this paper for the first time ensemble methods including Decision Tree, Bagging and Random Forest have been proposed in the field of earthquake precursors to detect GPS-TEC (Total Electron Content) seismo-ionospheric anomalies around the time and location of Chile earthquake of 27 February 2010. All of the implemented ensemble methods detected a striking anomaly in time series of TEC data, 1 day after the earthquake at 14:00 UTC. The results indicate that the proposed methods due to their performance, speed and simplicity are quite promising and deserve serious attention as a new predictor tools for seismo-ionospheric anomalies detection.