If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

Japan has developed an undersea warning system that can detect earthquakes 20 seconds before they reach land, significantly ...

Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts program is a globe-spanning earthquake early-warning system that uses billions of phone ...

According to their study, published today in the journal Science, the Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) system’s efficacy ...

Google and UC Berkeley have turned Android smartphones into lifesaving earthquake detectors, now operating in 98 countries ...

Japan's new earthquake-sensing nervous system spans ocean fault zones, boosting tsunami warnings by up to 20 minutes and ...

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...

Japan launches worlds first underwater earthquake early warning system with 6,000 km of fiber optics Japan unveils pioneering fiber optic network for seismic safety and disaster preparedness ...

Some early detection systems gather data from sensors placed in various areas around an earthquake zone, compile it and then issue a warning for a region. The process can take as long as 30 ...

Japan, Mexico, Romania, Turkey and Taiwan all have earthquake early warning systems. Will California have what it needs to be prepared, or will budget cuts prevent an early earthquake detection ...

Seismic Warning Systems, a California-based earthquake early warning company is in the spotlight after the Japan earthquake. The company approaches earthquake detection differently.

Meanwhile, Japan was a world pioneer in an early earthquake detection system. “We have 1,000 stations around the Western US,” Jones says. “We need more like 2,000 or 3,000.” ...