Quake-Catcher Network uses laptops to send early warnings.(News Watch)

Publication: Scientific Computing

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The Quake-Catcher Network (QCN), a collaborative research project between UC Riverside and Stanford University, will use distributed computing to develop a low-cost seismic network for earthquake detection. Many laptops have sudden motion sensors internal to them, which can be used to detect shaking caused by earthquakes.

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