Google’s New Update Could Warn You of Earthquakes Before They Strike!

A diabolical epoch has begun in earthquake warnings, as the new warning system transforms two billion smartphones worldwide into gravity-turning warning systems. Such a technology would allow the people of the world to take safe cover before any earthquake strikes. Thereby, reducing the loss of life. Google plays the most critical role in progressive technology by making a bold suggestion to transform the world's detection-and-warning system for earthquakes into the largest of its kind through 2 billion Android phones.

How Does This Technology By Google Work?

By using the smartphone accelerometer sensor, the system picks up an earthquake's vibrations. It sends reports of the tremors to Google's servers; within seconds, AI and algorithms analyze the vibrations to confirm if it's an actual tremor associated with an earthquake. If this is confirmed as an earthquake, alerts are sent out automatically to the phones of people in the nearby areas.

Why Is This Undertaking Significant?

In the case of natural disasters like earthquakes, a second or two of warning can mean the difference between thousands of lives saved and thousands of lives lost. Earthquakes like these happen in advanced countries such as Japan and California, but there was no such system in the developing countries or low-tech ones. This now puts the system in the hands of the entire world-following its initiative.

Is it Operational in Which Countries?

New Zealand, the USA, Greece, Turkey, and a few other countries are operational. The list goes on with many other countries expected to follow soon. As for when the service would be in Bangladesh and India, along with other South Asian countries, the company does not have much to say on that. But the target gets this technology into the hands of every single person in the world.

Google's smartphone earthquake warning system shows that, indeed, technology can do much more than make life easier, but it can save lives. This is indubitably a milestone and an important pillar of future disaster management.