[analog-help] Web hits used to pinpoint earthquakes

[Aengus]

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