“The proliferation of low-cost sensors in consumer products provides opportunities for new observations of our physical environment that are both dense and global in scale.”
– Seismologist
Richard M. Allen, on how smartphones are transforming earthquake detection. His team’s Android Earthquake Alerts system now monitors 2.5 billion people across 98 countries, turning everyday devices into a planetary seismic network that detects an average of 312 earthquakes per month.
