Getting your player ready...
LOS ANGELES — Earthquake scientists want to borrow your laptop or maybe a little space in your basement or garage.
Researchers don’t have enough high-tech monitoring stations to track every instance of ground shaking, so they are enlisting help from ordinary people to document quakes and pinpoint areas of possible damage.
Almost anyone can participate by equipping laptop computers with special software or installing quake sensors at home.
“If they can provide scientific data that can prepare us for events in the future, then that’s extremely important,” said Tom Jordan of the Southern California Earthquake Center at the University of Southern California.
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