Android Is Now The World’s Largest Earthquake Detection Network

Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica
Tue, 08/11/2020 - 6:00am

The earthquake alert system on Android, which for now is only in California. [credit: Google ] Back in 2016, Ars reported on an interesting use for the bundle of sensors we carry around every day in our smartphones—earthquake detection. The accelerometers in your phone make a passable-enough seismometer, and together with location data and enough users, you could detect earthquakes and warn users as the shocks roll across the landscape.

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