russell at loosenut
Jul 2, 2008, 11:08 AM
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Re: Web hits used to pinpoint earthquakes
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:49:42PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote:
> 2008/7/2 Aengus <analog07 [at] eircom>:
> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19826626.300-web-hits-used-to-pinpoint-earthquakes.html
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> 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 [at] loosenut
"'Kung Fu' means skill from effort. 'Kung Foo' means skill from
badass-programming-powers..."
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