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An Austrian named Michael Stadler has devised a way to detect a potential tsunami using a simple downloadable software and the sophisticated vibration sensors found in your desktop PC’s hard disk.

“Almost all computer hard drives include sophisticated vibration sensors, and the data they provide allows the drive to maintain the required position for the read/write heads against the disks. Stadler has developed a program that can access and analyze this data, then share it with other computers connected via a peer-to-peer network.

By comparing notes, the computers can ignore vibrations caused by something like your cat jumping onto the desk, and it can even differentiate between earth movements caused by a tsunami vs. normal seismic activity. If all of the correct factors fall into place, the system will sound the alarm, sending warnings to each of the connected computers.”

Download Stadler’s freeware here. (The link may be hard to access at the moment due to people’s massive interest in escaping tsunamis, which translates to people’s massive interest in all things Stadler. If the link appears to be down, have a foot massage and come back later.)

via SCIFITECH

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