Smartphone app to alert users to Earthquakes
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 16-02-2016
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While a phone's motion sensor, or accelerometer, is less sensitive than an in-ground sensometer, it can record earthquakes above a magnitude of 5 within 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). And the sheer number of potential users makes up for a phone's insensitivity, with an estimated 16 million smartphones in California and about 1 billion worldwide. MyShake can be downloaded for free from Google's Play store, and an iPhone app is also planned, Deutsche Telekom said.