# Richter's Predictor: Modeling Earthquake Damage
**URL:** https://community.drivendata.org/t/richters-predictor-modeling-earthquake-damage/3843
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/richters-predictor-modeling-earthquake-damage/3843 "2019-11-18T14:33:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@kevlaouach](https://community.drivendata.org/u/kevlaouach)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/richters-predictor-modeling-earthquake-damage/3843/1 "2019-11-18T14:33:37Z")
I don’t see any thread about the Richter’s Predictor: Modeling Earthquake Damage competition ☹
anybody wants to share what they achieved?
I reached 0.7493 by using lightgbm with close to zero feature engineering.
It would love to hear from people with higher scores!
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### Author:  [@CholeChow](https://community.drivendata.org/u/CholeChow)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/richters-predictor-modeling-earthquake-damage/3843/2 "2020-02-16T17:16:49Z")
Hi, I am doing this project for my coursework, but I have a question about the dataset. For example, there are some features are objects, such as roof\_type, I really confuse about what are the meaning of these values, such as n, q and so on.
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### Author:  [@pnagare](https://community.drivendata.org/u/pnagare)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/richters-predictor-modeling-earthquake-damage/3843/3 "2020-02-16T18:36:54Z")
Even I am looking for the meaning of those categories