Getting your player ready...
LOS ANGELES — Earthquake scientists want to borrow your laptop or maybe a little space in your basement or garage.
Researchers at California’s Stanford University and other universities 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. For information, go to .
