Sundar Pichai reveals Google’s next big project to make the world a ‘safer’ place

Natural disasters like floods or earthquakes catch completely off guard and come without any serious prior warning as such. At times one often wonders, is it possible to detect earthquakes? Well, that’s exactly what Google and its CEO Sundar Pichai have asked the same question and they seem to have a few answers as well.
Google recently conducted an experiment using its subsea fiber optic cables, which showed that it could be useful for earthquake and tsunami warning systems.
Valey Kamalov and Mattia Cantono from Google Global Networking posted a blog detailing how Google plans to detect earthquakes. “Last October, an idea came to us: we could detect earthquakes based on spectral signatures—performing a spectral analysis of Stokes parameters to look at frequencies that are typical of earthquakes,” they said in the blog post.