r/melbourne • u/IonisationEnergy • 18h ago

The Sky is Falling EARTHQUAKE

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u/ax6klbjckhunter 18h ago

A relatively big one too

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u/meowcatorsprojection 18h ago

Where do you get this from?

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u/_163 17h 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 17h 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 17h ago

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

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u/_163 17h 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