MyShake – Building a smartphone seismic network

If everyone's smartphone can turn into a seismometer, then we will have a really dense global seismic network to monitor earthquakes! Sounds great! But you may have a lot of questions in your mind!

How can a smartphone detect earthquakes? What magnitude of the earthquake can a smartphone detect? How can a smartphone tell if the motion is my motion or earthquake motion?  How can the smartphone seismic network issue an earthquake early warning?

Qingkai Kong will answer all these questions by presenting the UC Berkeley Seismological Lab research project – MyShake, that turns your phone into a seismometer to monitor the earthquakes, and potentially issue earthquake early warning in the future.

Editor's Note: The lecture originally planned for today on Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest with Diego Melgar has been replaced with this one.