[analog-help] Web hits used to pinpoint earthquakes

[Stephen Turner]

2008/7/2 Aengus <analog07 at eircom.net>:
> 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/

-- 
Stephen Turner