What if computers could be turned into a worldwide earthquake find connection ? With the Quake Catcher software package and your laptop ’s build - in accelerometer , that might just be possible .
Elizabeth Cochran , an earth scientist at UC Riverside , has already managed to get about 1,000 masses to install Quake Catcher and has been cross the day of the month posit by the computer software — including disruptions from the recent magnitude 8.8 seism in Chile .
The organisation is n’t perfect as it ’s limited by the sensitiveness of accelerometers built into information processing system or ones associate by USB , but at least it does have a mechanism in place to ignore vibration that are limited to a undivided machine . This mean that accidentally letting your laptop fall off the desk wo n’t make anyone assume there ’s an seism . Now if you organise such a drop with a bunch of multitude in your geographic surface area on the other hand , we might manage to untune Ms. Cochran a snatch . [ LA TimesviaPop Sci ]
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