Unlike conventional systems that use dedicated, expensive seismic instruments, Google's Android Earthquake Alerts system leverages the sheer scale of smartphones, which continuously collect motion ...

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A worldwide Android smartphone-based earthquake detection and early warning system can detect seismic activity in real time.

If you're in an earthquake-prone area and own an Android phone, it could save your life. It may even have already done so.

Starting in the US in 2020 and expanding internationally since, the system is called Android Earthquake Alert (AEA), and it's ...