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It has been rightly said that future is uncertain and this gets further solidarity when a natural calamity occurs like earthquakes, floods etc. The researchers and scientists across the world are making furious attempts to warn people about such mishappenings in advance. As an add-on to the same research, various researchers and seismologists in California are working hard to develop an earthquake warning system to warn its residents of the impending disaster and the entire research is inspired by the warning system Japan has incorporated and is successfully using since 2007.
These systems make use of specialized equipment which doesn't come cheap. To reduce the overall costing, developers based in the University of California, Berkeley have now developed a new app dubbed the myShake exclusively for the Android platform for now and it is expected to get access to further platforms once the testing gets successful.
This newly designed app converts the smartphone into a mini-seismometer that runs in the background without any memory hog and makes use of phone's built-in accelerometer to detect shaking and in case of a constant and unusual shaking that matches the "vibrational profile" of an earthquake, the app submits the data directly to the Berkeley seismologists for further analysis anonymously that might give a sense of relief to a common man.
Richard Allen, the UC Berkeley professor who oversees the myShake project, states that “MyShake can make earthquake early warning faster and more accurate in areas that have a traditional seismic network, and can provide life-saving early warning in countries that have no seismic network.” The researchers wish that the app would surely become an important part of a global earthquake detection network.
Despite the app being developed by them, the team has clearly overruled the idea that this app would replace specialized earthquake-detection systems that are being operated by the US Geological Survey or UC Berkeley itself. The app is a free app with no IAP and is available on Google Play Store.
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