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Community sense and response systems: your phone as quake detector

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Matthew Faulkner,

Robert Clayton,

K. Mani Chandy,

Andreas KrauseAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 57, Issue 7

Pages 66 - 75

https://doi.org/10.1145/2622633

Published: 01 July 2014 Publication History

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The Caltech CSN project collects sensor data from thousands of personal devices for real-time response to dangerous earthquakes.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 57, Issue 7

July 2014

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DOI:10.1145/2622628

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