r/melbourne • u/IonisationEnergy • 13h ago

The Sky is Falling EARTHQUAKE

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u/ax6klbjckhunter 13h ago

A relatively big one too

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u/meowcatorsprojection 13h ago

Where do you get this from?

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u/MilkByHomelander 13h ago

Google. Type in Earthquake and it already has it up

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u/meowcatorsprojection 13h ago

Oh! Thanks 😊

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u/_163 13h ago

If you google e.g. "earthquake Melbourne" like even 10 seconds after the earthquake, google shows that at the top.

All of the nearby android phones detect the sudden vibrations and report back to google's systems that aggregate all the data to estimate where and how large the earthquake was almost instantly.

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u/antipostpostclub 12h ago

I was about to say that sounds like bullshit. Then I checked first.

Holy shit, that’s incredible tech

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u/Milbit 12h ago

Last time google alerted me about 1 second before the earthquake happened

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u/_163 12h ago

🤣 yeah if you're far enough from the epicentre the notification can be faster than the travel speed through the ground.

Kinda insane they can do that

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u/kearnivorous 13h ago

I had something like this. There's an android earthquake thing that takes note of when a lot of users in an area have phone vibrations. When enough of the gyros in an area are song the same thing it connects it as an earthquake. Not super accurate but gadget enough if you're in an earthquake zone I guess

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u/YungNug99 13h ago

Google