Smartphone app to give earthquake warning:-
By next year, your smartphone could be ready to give you an earthquake warning, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro. An app designed to give such warnings is in the making at the University of California, Berkeley.
Researchers from the university showed off the project this week at a conference on how to use technology to ward off natural disasters, AFP reports. The app is based on technology used in an early warning system prepared by a team under Professor Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory.
The smartphone app is capable of providing an alert between a few seconds and one minute before a tremor hits, depending on where an individual using it is in relation to the epicenter. To do this, the app captures initial energy from the tremor, the so-called P wave or primary wave, which rarely itself causes damage.
Researchers from the university showed off the project this week at a conference on how to use technology to ward off natural disasters, AFP reports. The app is based on technology used in an early warning system prepared by a team under Professor Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory.
The smartphone app is capable of providing an alert between a few seconds and one minute before a tremor hits, depending on where an individual using it is in relation to the epicenter. To do this, the app captures initial energy from the tremor, the so-called P wave or primary wave, which rarely itself causes damage.
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