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2020: Presentation of Earthquake Alert Service
Google has developed an earthquake alert service. This became known on September 22, 2020.
With the Earthquake Alerts System, a mobile phone operating system Android can become a mini-seismometer. After the earthquake Angeles Google , he shared a visualization of what he found. smartphones
Vice President of Android Development Dave Burke tweeted a video showing Los Angeles and its environs immediately after the 4.5-magnitude earthquake. Yellow and red dots - locations of P and S waves, which are used by seismologists for early detection of earthquakes. The accelerometer of smartphones is able to detect the initial wave. When this happens, the phone will send the shared location to Google's earthquake detection server.
Google added this service to Android in August 2020. So far, notifications only work for California users. Google receives data from 700 seismometers and warns users in advance of shocks[1]
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