Google turns Android phones into earthquake sensors

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Smartphones become mini-seismographs.

Google turns Android phones into earthquake sensors
Google's Android phones have started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California. Japan, Mexico and California already use ...

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