... data for exactly this purpose. I - and many other people - stopped using it because it was a massive battery drain.
Ironically, one minor, simple feature would have made it usable - only working when plugged in (which is, regardless, when the phone is still, on a hard surface, and providing the best data). Yet they not only did just that, but implemented the option (a feature to sleep the app when plugged in).
Sounds like Google is being smart about it and only activating it when the phones are plugged in
Sure you have a wheel, many in fact, but you don't have Google Wheel. We'll re-invent anything! Plus it's an app, so it rolls smoothly over even the most rugged terrain.
When earthquakes strike, ANSS delivers real-time information , providing situational awareness for emergency-response personnel. In regions with sufficient seismic stations, that information includes –within minutes–a ShakeMap showing the distribution of potentially damaging ground shaking, information used to target post-earthquake response efforts.
Well, there's your problem. Their system gives information minutes later, for coordinating things after the fact. The system google is working on will give alerts in just a few seconds, so you can coordinate things BEFORE the earthquake hits. If you RTFA it's all explained in great details (you have to go down like 8 or 10 paragraphs before you start hitting the real meat of why this makes sense). Now manybe ANSS can improve their response times to do what goo
1) Hack the site and grab the app subscriber list
2) Select a group of subscribers living close enough, and send them an SMS. Each smartphone, upon receiving the message, will vibrate for a while.
3).....
4) Quake warning!
I believe there was an attempt a few years ago (probably many years ago since I'm old) to do the same thing using the vibration sensors in hard disk units. It worked well by was limited.
... data for exactly this purpose. I - and many other people - stopped using it because it was a massive battery drain.
Ironically, one minor, simple feature would have made it usable - only working when plugged in (which is, regardless, when the phone is still, on a hard surface, and providing the best data). Yet they not only did just that, but implemented the option (a feature to sleep the app when plugged in).
Sounds like Google is being smart about it and only activating it when the phones are plugged in
Sure you have a wheel, many in fact, but you don't have Google Wheel. We'll re-invent anything! Plus it's an app, so it rolls smoothly over even the most rugged terrain.
Personally, I've always preferred the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) [usgs.gov] over Google Shake, or whatever the fuck they are calling this one.
That's interesting. Lets see what your link says
When earthquakes strike, ANSS delivers real-time information , providing situational awareness for emergency-response personnel. In regions with sufficient seismic stations, that information includes –within minutes–a ShakeMap showing the distribution of potentially damaging ground shaking, information used to target post-earthquake response efforts.
Well, there's your problem. Their system gives information minutes later, for coordinating things after the fact. The system google is working on will give alerts in just a few seconds, so you can coordinate things BEFORE the earthquake hits. If you RTFA it's all explained in great details (you have to go down like 8 or 10 paragraphs before you start hitting the real meat of why this makes sense). Now manybe ANSS can improve their response times to do what goo
2) Select a group of subscribers living close enough, and send them an SMS. Each smartphone, upon receiving the message, will vibrate for a while.
3)
4) Quake warning!
I believe there was an attempt a few years ago (probably many years ago since I'm old) to do the same thing using the vibration sensors in hard disk units. It worked well by was limited.