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Quake-detection app captured nearly 400 temblors worldwide (Oklahoma is a hot spot)
http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/12/14/quake-detection-app-captured-nearly-400-temblors-worldwide/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Quake-detection app captured nearly 400 temblors worldwide[/font]
By Robert Sanders, Media relations | December 14, 2016
[font size=4]UC Berkeley’s worldwide network of smartphone earthquake detectors has recorded nearly 400 earthquakes since the MyShake app was made available for download in February, with one of the most active areas of the world the fracking fields of Oklahoma.[/font]
From Feb. 12, 2016 – the release date of the MyShake app – until Dec. 1, 2016, 395 earthquakes with confirmed waveforms were detected by MyShake users around the world.
[font size=3]The Android app harnesses a smartphone’s motion detectors to measure earthquake ground motion, then sends that data back to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory for analysis. The eventual goal is to send early-warning alerts to users a bit farther from ground zero, giving them seconds to a minute of warning that the ground will start shaking. That’s enough time to take cover or switch off equipment that might be damaged in a quake.
To date, nearly 220,000 people have downloaded the app, and at any one time, between 8,000 and 10,000 phones are active — turned on, lying on a horizontal surface and connected to a wi-fi network — and thus primed to respond.
An updated version of the MyShake app will be available for download today (Dec. 14) from the Google Play Store, providing an option for push notifications of recent quakes within a distance determined by the user, and the option of turning the app off until the phone is plugged in, which could extend the life of a single charge in older phones.
“The notifications will not be fast initially — not fast enough for early warning — but it puts into place the technology to deliver the alerts and we can then work toward making them faster and faster as we improve our real-time detection system within MyShake,” said project leader Richard Allen, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary sciences and director of the seismology lab.
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By Robert Sanders, Media relations | December 14, 2016
[font size=4]UC Berkeley’s worldwide network of smartphone earthquake detectors has recorded nearly 400 earthquakes since the MyShake app was made available for download in February, with one of the most active areas of the world the fracking fields of Oklahoma.[/font]
From Feb. 12, 2016 – the release date of the MyShake app – until Dec. 1, 2016, 395 earthquakes with confirmed waveforms were detected by MyShake users around the world.
[font size=3]The Android app harnesses a smartphone’s motion detectors to measure earthquake ground motion, then sends that data back to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory for analysis. The eventual goal is to send early-warning alerts to users a bit farther from ground zero, giving them seconds to a minute of warning that the ground will start shaking. That’s enough time to take cover or switch off equipment that might be damaged in a quake.
To date, nearly 220,000 people have downloaded the app, and at any one time, between 8,000 and 10,000 phones are active — turned on, lying on a horizontal surface and connected to a wi-fi network — and thus primed to respond.
An updated version of the MyShake app will be available for download today (Dec. 14) from the Google Play Store, providing an option for push notifications of recent quakes within a distance determined by the user, and the option of turning the app off until the phone is plugged in, which could extend the life of a single charge in older phones.
“The notifications will not be fast initially — not fast enough for early warning — but it puts into place the technology to deliver the alerts and we can then work toward making them faster and faster as we improve our real-time detection system within MyShake,” said project leader Richard Allen, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary sciences and director of the seismology lab.
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