How Google turns billions of Android phones into a planet-scale earthquake sensor network

A neat reminder that the most powerful sensor network on Earth is already in everyone's pocket. As Enrique points out, Google's Android Earthquake Alerts System treats the accelerometer in each phone as a tiny seismometer, streams the data, and fuses thousands of readings to detect the first earthquake waves — pushing alerts to people seconds before the shaking reaches them.

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