Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts program is a globe-spanning earthquake early-warning system that uses billions of phone ...

Google and UC Berkeley have turned Android smartphones into lifesaving earthquake detectors, now operating in 98 countries ...

Starting in the US in 2020 and expanding internationally since, the system is called Android Earthquake Alert (AEA), and it's ...

Since their first implementation in Mexico and Japan, earthquake early-warning (EEW) systems have provided critical advance ...

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

Study reveals how the tech behemoth is using the motions sensors on phones to expand quake warnings to more countries.

Earthquake data will also begin showing up in Google searches soon as well. As for the warnings and alerts based on the data aggregated from Android phones, that will take a bit more time.

Not everyone in the earthquake’s area will feel these, but a network of 1,300 USGS sensors do. When four sensors are simultaneously triggered, they send an alert to a data processing center.

Google says it will start working with the U.S. Geological Survey to send earthquake alerts to Android devices, starting in California. Android will send alerts to phones in California from the ...

Google LLC today detailed a new project aimed at harnessing crowdsourced sensor data from Android devices to warn users when an earthquake hits their area.There are more than 2.5 billion Android d ...

Android devices will soon be able to detect earthquakes as they’re happening, thanks to a partnership between Google, the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) ShakeAlert, and academics at the ...

Google is constantly updating its search capabilities – just this week it introduced a native lyric search. Now it's announced an even more practical update – real-time earthquake reports that ...