The earthquakes caused mass destruction and over 50,000 deaths in Turkey.
Google's earthquake warning system, which comes pre-installed in Android phones, was one of those systems. But it failed to get to many Turkish residents at the time of February's deadly tremor, found aThe team visited three cities in the earthquake zone and spoke to hundreds of people, but couldn’t find anyone who had received an initial warning. However, they found that there were a handful of people who received a warning for the second seismic hit.
Turkey faces a high risk of exposure to earthquakes due to the meeting of several large tectonic plates. Google in its 2020had promised that Android phones will act like mini seismometers, thus forming the world’s largest earthquake detection network. The system detects tremors of 4.5 and above. “An early warning can help people prepare for shaking, but the public infrastructure to detect and alert everyone about an earthquake is costly to build and deploy,” said Google. “We saw an opportunity to use Android to provide people with timely, helpful earthquake information when they search, as well as a few seconds warning to get themselves and their loved ones to safety if needed.
When the system sends an alert on the Android phone, it takes up the whole screen and displays a warning to "drop, cover, hold" and is accompanied by a loud alarm.Usually when an earthquake, even of the smallest magnitude, strikes a city, it’s followed by a huge clamor on social media. But not a lot of people posted after the first earthquake hitteam a document with only 13 social media posts they had found of people talking of a warning that day.
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