hi, my name is richardallen and i'm the director of the uc berkeleyseismological laboratory. i want to tell you about aresearch project that we have to collect the new generationof data that we can use to reduce the impactof future earthquakes. to do it, we need your help. we want to use the sensors on your phone to record the impacts of an earthquake so that we can understand them.
but in the near future, we hope to use it to be able to send a warning out to you and other users of the myshakeapp in order to give you a few seconds warningbefore the shaking starts. it works best when you actually have your phone on a stable table. so all smart phones have an accelerometer which allows the phone to sense motion whether you're walking,whether you're running,
the orientation of the screen. we use that data to beable to detect earthquakes. when the earthquake strikes, (blocks clatter) the accelerometer in the phone will record the ground shaking, sendthat data to our system. we can use that data tounderstand the physics of the process beneath us,how the buildings around us respond to these earthquakes,and we will have more data
than we have from thetraditional seismic networks. myshake can improveearthquake early warning in places with traditionalseismic networks like the us. but in other parts of the world where there are no traditional seismic networks, there are still millions of smart phones. so myshake could bringearthquake early warning capabilities to those regions too. right now, it's onlyavailable for android.
the free download is availablefrom the google play store. myshake doesn't interferewith any other applications on your phone, and usesonly minimal power. with the help of thousandsof you downloading the app, we'll be able to more rapidlymove to the next generation of myshake and actuallystart providing alerts. with your help, we're gonna change the way we do seismology, and we'regoing to reduce the number of lives lost in the totaldamage in future earthquakes.