To receive earthquake warnings, individuals and family members can download the MyShake App and ensure phone settings are adjusted to receive emergency alerts, including: Managed by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), Earthquake Warning California uses ground motion sensors from across the state to detect earthquakes before humans can feel them and can notify Californians to “Drop, Cover and Hold On” in advance of an earthquake. When you look up “earthquake” or “earthquake near me,” you’ll find relevant results for your area, along with helpful resources on what to do after an earthquake.Earthquake Warning California is the country’s first publicly available, statewide warning system that could give California residents crucial seconds to take cover before you feel shaking.

To start, we’ll use this technology to share a fast, accurate view of the impacted area on Google Search. And lucky for us, the speed of light is much faster! We’re essentially racing the speed of light (which is roughly the speed at which signals from a phone travel) against the speed of an earthquake. The server then combines information from many phones to figure out if an earthquake is happening. If the phone detects something that it thinks may be an earthquake, it sends a signal to our earthquake detection server, along with a coarse location of where the shaking occurred. This means your Android phone can be a mini seismometer, joining millions of other Android phones out there to form the world’s largest earthquake detection network.Īll smartphones come with tiny accelerometers that can sense signals that indicate an earthquake might be happening. Starting today, your Android phone can be part of the Android Earthquake Alerts System, wherever you live in the world. So we’re using the reach of Android’s platform to help detect earthquakes. Installing a ground network of seismometers, as California has done, may not be feasible in all impacted areas around the world. Building the world’s largest earthquake detection network

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