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Google has turned 2 billion smartphones into a global earthquake warning system — it's as effective as seismometers, tests show
Google's earthquake early-warning system has used phone accelerometers on Android devices to increase quake alerts by tenfold ...
The system wasn't working when a tsunami struck Sunday, killing hundreds. Tsunamis have devastated the shorelines of Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries before, but the subsequent deaths and ...
Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study ...
A screenshot of a Wireless Emergency Alert — similar to an Amber Alert — warning of incoming shaking. (Robert de Groot / U.S. Geological Survey) Monday's magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success ...
Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems are rapidly evolving platforms that utilise dense sensor networks, real-time data analysis and advanced computational methods to detect the initial seismic ...
The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization is calling for an expansion of global monitoring and forecasting networks to alert people in developing nations about extreme weather events, as ...
"Based on ground conditions and the localised rainfall, we're only getting flooding events in areas of a few hundred metres and obviously that's very damaging to those areas. We really cannot predict ...
Small mammals are early warning systems for environmental damage, but many species look almost identical, making them hard to track. Scientists have developed a new footprint-based method that can ...
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