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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		A crowdsourcing project that improves the speed and accuracy of earthquake detection
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:00
	Publish Date:		2016-04-21 00:00:00
	Description:		A new smartphone app called MyShake designed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley is creating a global seismic network that is expanding by the day. Graduate student Qingkai Kong says the new Android app is a crowd sourcing project to improve the speed and accuracy of current earthquake detection. Photo: Michael Short, Special To The Chronicle "If there’s an earthquake occurring, somewhere in the world… the phones nearby will first detect it, and then they will send the trigger message back to our server, and we will see, like a cluster of triggers from the phones nearby the center of the earthquake, both in time and place." The current version of the app runs 24 hours a day and provides interactive features like a map of past historical earthquakes and a list of items needed to prepare for a quake, such as an emergency kit. "We hope that in the future, with everyone’s help, we will have a public earthquake early warning system from these smartphones."
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