Can we detect earthquakes before they strike?

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Tue, 06/02/2009 - 7:10am

Can we detect earthquakes before they strike? Richard Allen has created Elarms, a suite of algorithms designed to measure real time seismic data and then rapidly detect the initiation of an earthquake 5-10 seconds before it occurs-long enough to make a difference.

Via SmartPlanet.


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