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Smartphone apps shake up earthquake early-warning systems

19 Sep 2018
This article first appeared in the September 2018 issue of Physics World under the headline "Shaking up the system"

A year after a devastating earthquake hit Mexico City, Lucina Melesio examines how the development of early-warning smartphone apps could help save lives in the future

On 19 September 1985 Mexico City was reduced to rubble by a magnitude-8.0 earthquake. While the epic

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