MyShake: Now an app to detect earthquake

MyShake, will be publicly available on Sunday, May 22 (Tokyo time), through the Google Play Store, which can be accessed via the MyShake website.
A team of researchers has shaken things up with a new app so that you can turn your smartphones into personal earthquake detectors.
The University of California scientists are coming out with a Japanese version of an Android app that crowdsources ground-shaking information from smartphones to detect quakes and eventually warn users of impending jolts