Google has announced a new feature on its operating system “Android” for mobile devices. This feature will save the lives of many users in the event of an earthquakes through the accelerometer on smartphones with this system.
Google said through its statement that Android phones around the world will form an earthquake warning and monitoring network, as the company will rely on accelerometers in Android phones to send alerts to users in the geographical area in which the earthquake occurred and near the seismic focus in order to inform them of this .
Thus, all users of Android phones will form a global network for monitoring and warning of earthquakes in all regions of the world, as smart phones with the Android system send information in real time to Google’s servers for monitoring this type of phenomena.
And for this, users can also view the latest seismic activities on the planet via the Google search engine by typing the word “earthquake” in the search engine.
