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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:56 AM
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Earthquake prediction using accelerometers in laptops
A scientist in California is trying to recruit thousands of people to build a volunteer early warning system by harnessing technology in laptops.

Motion sensors already fitted in computers are being used as seismographs.

The hope is a large network of quake sensors could one day help give warning of impending tremors, as Rajesh Mirchandani reports from California.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8615558.stm
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jtuck004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:10 AM
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1. Dang. Knocked my laptop off the desk and 40,000 people evacuated San Francisco. n.t
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