Following the instant alert last night about the earthquake in Melbourne, it's fascinating to read this article from 2020 about how the Android Earthquake Alerts System works.

Earthquake detection and early alerts, now on your Android phone
https://blog.google/products/android/earthquake-detection-and-alerts/
"Your Android phone can be part of the Android Earthquake Alerts System, wherever you live in the world. This means your Android phone can be a mini seismometer, joining millions of other Android phones out there to form the world’s largest earthquake detection network.
All smartphones come with tiny accelerometers that can sense signals that indicate an earthquake might be happening. If the phone detects something that it thinks may be an earthquake, it sends a signal to our earthquake detection server, along with a coarse location of where the shaking occurred."

#MelbQuake #Melbourne #Earthquake #AndroidEarthquakeAlertsSystem

Vic Emergency on the ball with an #earthquake alert a full 45minutes after the fact.

#melbquake

Weird. I thought I heard the rumble of an earthquake. We remarked on it at the time but we felt nothing.

Earthquake reported at Sunbury near Melbourne https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-29/earthquake-reported-in-melbourne/102404018

#MelbQuake #Melbourne #Earthquake

I am not a fan of earthquakes.

Maybe because we don't get many that you can feel here, my brain's first go to is not earthquake, but explosion.

Living near the ring road, close to industrial areas, and under a flight path doesn't help.

#melbquake #Melbourrne

Didn’t feel a thing over here in the west (Altona). #melbquake

Errrr … earthquake? #melbquake