Seismologists and app developers are shaking things up with a new app that transforms smartphones into personal earthquake detectors. By tapping into a smartphone's accelerometer -- the motion ...

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And scientists at Stanford developed an AI system — dubbed Cnn-Rnn Earthquake Detector, or CRED — that can isolate and identify a range of seismic signals from historical and continuous data.

Mini seismometers in Android phones act as a network of sensors to notify residents of an earthquake, giving them time to prepare.

Sea-floor instruments will monitor seismic activity very close to the Cascadia fault.

Smartphone app MyShake uses motion-sensing accelerometers to detect nearby quakes. The app could provide early warnings of incoming tremors, its creators say.

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AI is helping seismologists detect earthquakes they’d otherwise miss Using the same tools we use for voice detection, scientists are uncovering tiny earthquakes hidden in the data ...

If you’ve ever been in an earthquake you’d assume it would be pretty easy to detect one. If things are shaking, there’s an earthquake. In reality, though, a lot of things can shak… ...

Google’s Android Earthquake Alert System alerted people of an earthquake in Brazil early on Valentine’s Day, but it was a false alarm — there was no earthquake.

A collapsed tower in Finale Emilia is among the rubble after a strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy in 2012. (Reuters/Giorgio Benvenuti) When you grow up in California ...