thetimes.co.uk - Oliver Moody Science Correspondent
By the time the first cracks appeared in the plaster and the first books tumbled off the shelves, the Sicilian town was deserted. Fifteen minutes earlier a ripple of warnings had spread across the island from smartphone to smartphone, outstripping the powerful earthquake and saving dozens of lives.
This is the vision of a group of American geologists who believe they can use thousands of ordinary mobile phones to predict the paths of violent tremors.
Forecasting earthquakes dependably is too expensive for many parts of the world where seismic activity is an occasional but serious threat.
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