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| How do smartphones prevent earthquakes? |
An earthquake poses a great danger to anyone nearby. If users receive the warning early, they can use the extra time to actually save their lives, and this goal has led to earthquake tracking coming to the smartphone.
It is one of the areas of development that has attracted the interest of government and private companies. Especially in countries whose geographical location forces them to take this risk. The latest global application of this technology can be found in India, particularly in the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
This is the launch of a smartphone app developed by IIT Roorkee. This application enables continuous tracking of earthquakes and warns the user when the earthquake affects the user.
Track and avoid earthquakes
These applications offer great value to the users. However, it is still in its infancy and requires a lot of development and attention.
On the one hand, the new application allows users to notify users of any earthquake-related alarms, and on the other hand, it will identify people who are trapped after an earthquake, which will help them leave their places and save lives. Life.
As revealed by IIT Roorkee. The application helps to track an earthquake before it seriously harms people, that is, it offers the possibility of preventing such natural disasters at an early stage.
The scientific basis of the Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system used in the application is the tracking of waves generated by ground vibrations associated with earthquakes. These waves are formed when the rifting process begins inside the Earth.
The new app has been officially launched by the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences. It is also being tested and, if successful, could spread across the country.
The role of the smartphone
Earthquakes and environmental disasters can be deadly, so they must be addressed and avoided. Perhaps because of their technological advancement and because we are everywhere, smartphones are a great tool for this task. In addition to the previously mentioned applications, there have been great efforts in recent years to resist earthquakes with smartphones.
Most notable of these efforts is the MyShake app, published by researchers at the University of California. It is a free app that can be downloaded on Android and iOS.
This app uses your smartphone's accelerometer and uses location data to measure the level of ground vibrations around you. These features enable smartphones to act as seismic sensors.
The app is based on a lot of user feedback. When the app detects an earthquake in your area, it sends that information to its server. If at this point other mobile phones in the same geographical area are sending the same sensor, an earthquake is imminent.
For this application to function properly, it must be downloaded to a large number of smartphones in all regions. The main benefit of this app is that it uses a smartphone and its features to actually detect earthquakes rather than relying on external systems or sources.