As Anna Davison explains in her article titled "Laptops as Earthquake Sensors", a group of Earthquake researchers located in California have found a way to use motion sensors in laptops to predict the next earthquake. As described in Davison's article, the "Quake Catchter Network" is still in the making. This "earthquake network" will have many computers attached to it, and each computer will be able to monitor rumbles or shakes, and report the movements to one central server, which will then send the signal to all computers within the "Earthquake Network". Earthquake seismologist Jesse Lawrence explains that this network is not actually trying to predict an earthquake, but rather gather information quickly enough about particular shaky areas before the quake problem escalates. As noted in the article, the "Quake Catcher Network" software is only available to Macintosh laptops at this time, but plans to make it available for Windows in the future. The motion sensors are connected to the computers via USB, making it easy to install.
The orginal article can be found at:http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20658/?a=f
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