[analog-help] Web hits used to pinpoint earthquakes

[Russell Van Tassell]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:49:42PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote:
> 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/

The *real* question is: did analog appear in either the news article or
the movie?  *grins*

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