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Android telephones round San Francisco’s Bay Space buzzed with an alert on Tuesday morning: A 4.eight magnitude earthquake was about to hit. “You will have felt shaking,” among the messages learn. Greater than 1,000,000 Android customers noticed the alert. And for some, it arrived seconds earlier than the bottom even began transferring.
It’s not the primary time Android gadgets have acquired these alerts, says Marc Stogaitis, the undertaking lead for the Android Earthquake Alerts System. However as a result of the Bay Space is so densely populated, the alert hit sufficient telephones that the bigger public took discover. Earthquakes have traditionally come with out warning, catching folks off guard and leaving them with no advance discover to drop and take cowl. Alerts like this goal to take among the unpredictability out of earthquakes—even when by just some seconds.
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