A New Ear to the Ground ; Program Shakes Up Old Notions About Seismic Monitoring.

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If Elizabeth Cochran allowed herself to dream, the future would look something like this:

Every personal computer would double as a seismic monitor. That MacBook at the coffee house, the one used by the guy pounding out a screenplay? Working to detect ground tremors while its user sips a latte. The aging PC gathering dust in the guest room? Ready to catch the next quake.

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A New Ear to the Ground ; Program Shakes Up Old Notions About Seismic Monitoring.

If Cochran, an earth scientist at the University of California, Riverside, had her way, every time the ground beneath us shakes, those machines would capture its movement and feed the information to a central computer system, creating a ric...

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