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TLDR:USGS has built a system that can warn you of earthquakes and Google sent a notification from it to Android phones in the area seconds before the quake stru
by dzink 4y ago
TLDR:USGS has built a system that can warn you of earthquakes and Google sent a notification from it to Android phones in the area seconds before the quake struck them.
Separately, Google is collecting data from your phone while plugged in and locked.
- smcin 4y agoNot just USGS. Actually ShakeAlert program partners are: USGS, CalOES, Cal Geological Survey, CalTech, UC Berkeley Seismological Lab, UW, UOregon, ETH Zurich (SED), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation