Re: Web hits used to pinpoint earthquakes
Russell Van Tassell <russell-5fXpzJP4NnNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:49:42PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > 2008/7/2 Aengus <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > > > Well, it beats using web analytics to decide whom to kill next! > http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0880578/ The *real* question is: did analog appear in either the news article or the movie? *grins* -- Russell M. Van Tassell russell-5fXpzJP4NnNWk0Htik3J/[email protected] "'Kung Fu' means skill from effort. 'Kung Foo' means skill from badass-programming-powers..." +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------