[LINK] Sometimes I am surprised.

[Scott Howard]

Spoken like someone that's never lived in an earthquake zone!  (I used to
live a few hundred metres from the San Andreas Fault in Northern
California...)

The predecessor to this was an app that came out of UCB (Berkeley) in 2019
called MyShake - https://myshake.berkeley.edu/
I ran this app for a few years and the results were mixed - a few alerts
for quakes I didn't even feel, and no alerts for ones that were clearly
detectable, but the concept at least was a good one.

Google started adding the functionality a few years later, with similar
mixed results, although there were at least one or two occasions where it
gave moderate notice (several seconds or more) of a quake before I felt
anything.

That said, all of this was through a period when the area in California
where I lived (thankfully!) didn't have any earthquakes that were all that
significant, so it's hard to comment on how well it will work for a "big
one".

  Scott




On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM Antony Barry <antonybbarry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very occasionally I read something and my initial reaction is "that's
> absurd" followed by "hang on a moment that's brilliant".
>
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