“In the best-case scenario, when you adopt these new techniques, even on the same old data, it’s kind of like putting on glasses for the first time, and you can see the leaves on the trees,” said Kyle ...

Japan completed the world’s first real-time ocean floor earthquake detection system in June 2025, giving 20 seconds more earthquake warning and 20 minutes more tsunami warning. The network spans ...

Aerial view of the devastated along the north eastern coast of Japan following a massive earthquake and tsunami March 25, 2011. The undersea, magnitude 9.0 “megathrust” earthquake—the worst in Japan’s ...

Google has admitted its earthquake alert system largely failed during the 2023 earthquake in Turkey. The tech giant told the BBC that its Android Earthquake Alert (AEA) feature only sent 469 "Take ...

Google is expanding its earthquake alert system to Wear OS smartwatches, bringing life-saving early warnings directly to users’ wrists. Using data from millions of Android devices, the system detects ...

Many of the world’s largest and most devastating earthquakes strike beneath the ocean, where the lack of sensors makes quick warnings difficult. Most monitoring stations are on land. “If we have a big ...

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 ...

You'll never know that someday your smartwatch can save you, surprisingly. With regards to safety-related updates, Google is rolling out one of its most important Android features: the earthquake ...

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s national metrology center, plans to use subsea cables to detect earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean. In collaboration with the New Zealand-based ...

Google has finally acknowledged that Android’s earthquake detection system failed to alert millions of people during Turkey’s 2023 earthquake. The system sent out around 500,000 lower-level “Be Aware” ...

Japan has become the first country to cover every inch of the faultlines that trigger earthquakes in the country with sensors and cables connecting to hundreds of observatories to ring the alarm long ...