A powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Sunday, just 19 minutes after a 7.0 quake in the same region. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued alerts for ...

Russia, on Sunday, July 20, according to AFP. Following the strong seismic activity, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre ...

Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video ...

Unlike conventional systems that use dedicated, expensive seismic instruments, Google's Android Earthquake Alerts system leverages the sheer scale of smartphones, which continuously collect motion ...

A worldwide Android smartphone-based earthquake detection and early warning system can detect seismic activity in real time.

Back in 2020, Google kicked off a project to crowdsource signals from Android phones that an earthquake might be imminent.

Google's Android Earthquake Alerts system uses your phone's accelerometer to provide crucial seconds of warning before ...

If you're in an earthquake-prone area and own an Android phone, it could save your life. It may even have already done so.

The alerts rely on detecting fast-moving P-waves, which precede the more destructive S-waves during an earthquake. If enough ...

Starting in the US in 2020 and expanding internationally since, the system is called Android Earthquake Alert (AEA), and it's on by default in most Android phones. And today, Google has a paper in ...

An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving ...

A tsunami warning has been issued for parts of the Alaska Peninsula, stretching from Kennedy Entrance to Unimak Pass. This ...