Science hopes to achieve that with our puny smartphones and GPS navigation systems.
ShakeAlert, the West Coasts scientific-grade detector, has been in the development of science for nearly ten years.
However, their development process has been brought to a halt due to lack of financial resources.
These crowdsourced GPS earthquake detection could work apace with existing systems, to help fill in the void.
The thought that global positioning can detect and measure ground dislocation has been studied using scientific-grade GPS.
They later put the Google Nexus 5 for examination.
To that end, its really just a matter of implementation, he says.
Its about the Internet of Things, really.
Cars, robotic vehicles, WiFi hubsanything that has GPS associated with it could be used.
source: www.techworm.net
