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ShakeAlert provides earthquake early warning system

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a series of university partners are developing an earthquake early warning system called ShakeAlert, which aims to provide the general public with alerts up to 10

San Francisco Earthquakes Get Their Own Geolocated Twitter Account

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/Screen-shot-2010-01-09-at-1.23.12-PM-630x441-215x150.png" width="215" height="150" />Earthquakes and Twitter go way back. One of the first tru

New Garmin GPS unit to support topo, aerial photo data

It won’t be the first to the party, or even the second or third, but the trusted Garmin brand will soon have a unit that support that will include aerial maps and topographic data pre-loaded. Yo