Web hits used to pinpoint earthquakes

This is not entirely relevant to this list, but there was a short piece 
in this weeks New Scientist magazine about an interesting and novel 
appliance of web log analysis that I thought some of you might find amusing.

It seems that traffic to the European-Mediterranean Seismological 
Centre's (EMSC) website spikes in the immediate aftermath of a tremor, 
and by using GEO-IP techniques to map the IP addresses, researchers can 
locate the area where the earthquake occurred.

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19826626.300-web-hits-used-to-pinpoint-earthquakes.html

Aengus


+------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list:
|    http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help
|
|  Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html
|  List archives:  http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives
|  Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general
+------------------------------------------------------------------------