http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Wow, someone is a little too impatient.]]>Mar 15th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
Who's laptops? I did not know of this.]]>Mar 15th 2010 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
Hmm just need to coordinate a couple hundred people to gettyeir laptops and all starts shaking the outside Stanford to freak then out lol]]>Mar 15th 2010 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
shut the fck up ass wipe.

]]>Mar 15th 2010 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
Most people use their phones on the go, it would be to bumpy to be accurate.]]>Mar 15th 2010 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Maybe because everyone is always shaking their phone?]]>Mar 15th 2010 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/It's also a pretty interesting research tool. Typically accelerometer readings are only avialable by a few instruments which may already be in the area (Chile has about 20 or so, while haiti didn't have any, California has quite a few). Being able to access the time histories from all of these devices post quake would make for a great way to quantify localized soil effects (assuming you had GPS info) which have a very significant impact on structure response. Theoretically, you could use these localized readings to help develop better hazard maps and thereby improve the design codes. The downside though is that I doubt it's easy to quantify the accuracy of the accelerometers in use (probably just have to count on averaging of many results to give a general level of accuracy) or the influence of the structure your in (i.e.: reading at ground level will be different from at several stories up).

too bad my netbook doesn't have an accelerometer...dang!]]>Mar 15th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
I don't know, the theory behind this sounds a little shaky.]]>Mar 16th 2010 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
I would say, you might as well monitor tweeter and see if a ton of people in a certain location start tweeting, "omg, ground is shaking! brb."]]>Mar 15th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
If the embedded devices work out at a cheap price (maybe it will be under a government price reduction plan, like the digital tv converters) then I don't see why there wouldn't eventually be one in everyones home and is just as common as a smoke detector]]>Mar 15th 2010 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/WMD!!]]>Mar 15th 2010 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
First, it doesn't have a monitoring module. You have to run EVERYTHING, including the graphical interface that watches all the other computers and everything. You can't just leave the sensor watcher running in the background. That alone killed it for me.

On top of that though, the internet stopped working (Windows 7 32-bit, Firefox, a recent install actually so fairly clean) after I stopped running it and didn't work again until after a removal/reboot. Ugh.]]>Mar 15th 2010 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 15th 2010 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
Yes, because as we all know, if Stanford is known for one thing, it's for having absolute idiots on its campus and for never innovating anything. Yea, definitely sounds like Stanford...]]>Mar 16th 2010 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
yes, but the main point here is that it'd be much much cheaper using people's laptops instead of million dollar equipment. and if the results are the same, then it could be just as accurate. ]]>Mar 16th 2010 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
Beat me to it. Damn thing woke me up at 4 this morning. I'm tired!!!]]>Mar 16th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/
The ideal solution is to have an active real time simulation of the earths innards at any given moment running on a monstrous computer. That way these things can be predicted weeks or days before. Of course there is no way get the data to do something like this.]]>Mar 16th 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/earthquake-detection-software-gains-foothold-in-california/Mar 16th 2010 12:09PM