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Mobile Phone App for Earthquake Detection

Since February 2016, an app, called MyShake, has been available for detecting earthquakes by using the phones' on-board accelerometers. The app filters out the standard movements and can recognize earthquakes. If it detects a quake it reports it to a central server, combining the information from many mobile phones and gives advice on what to do.

News seen at: BBC - Science