Google's earthquake early-warning system has used phone accelerometers on Android devices to increase quake alerts by tenfold ...

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Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems are rapidly evolving platforms that utilise dense sensor networks, real-time data analysis and advanced computational methods to detect the initial seismic ...

The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization is calling for an expansion of global monitoring and forecasting networks to alert people in developing nations about extreme weather events, as ...

Could your smartphone save your life? If an earthquake is occurring, it just might. A worldwide Android smartphone-based earthquake detection and early warning system can detect seismic activity in ...

A screenshot of a Wireless Emergency Alert — similar to an Amber Alert — warning of incoming shaking. (Robert de Groot / U.S. Geological Survey) Monday's magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success ...

Maternal Early Warning Systems (EWS) are clinical tools designed to monitor physiological parameters in pregnant and postpartum women, with the primary aim of detecting early signs of clinical ...

What would you do if you knew you had 10 seconds before an earthquake hit? Robert de Groot, a U.S. Geological Survey spokesperson in California, can name a few things. Dentists can stop drilling.

There are many issues around how flood warnings are currently managed and distributed in Ireland. Many of those badly affected by the floods caused by Storm Chandra have talked ab ...

Science funding is rarely a bad thing, and when it goes towards boosting our knowledge of the greatest threat to humanity, it has to be seen as a positive. So, the £81 million slated recently by the ...