Using Smartphones to Track Earthquakes
How your phone can help.
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Innovator: Richard Allen
Age: 43
Director of UC Berkeley’s Seismological Laboratory and chair of the earth and planetary science department
Form and function
The app MyShake uses the accelerometers of smartphones to collect data that may help detect earthquakes, supplementing the information from seismic research stations to provide people with more warning time.