Google has announced the launch of its earthquake alert system for Android devices in India. The system uses smartphone sensors such as accelerators, which can act as small seismometers to detect trem
If you live anywhere near an earthquake zone (hello, San Francisco!), chances are you’ve occasionally wondered whether what you felt was an earthquake or just the rumbling of a heavy truck driv
Jawbone has shown one of the more interesting ways data gathered on its platform might be used for large-scale population studies: The fitness tracker company looked at its cumulative UP data to find
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/94183v9-max-250x250.jpg" />When disasters of scale happen, like the massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan and sent tsunamis rippl
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/iaea-flag.png" class="shot2"></img> A massive earthquake that struck off Japan's northeastern coast on Friday— taking 1,200 lives, with thou
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