After tacking space shuttle Discovery onto the back of a 747, the brainy gang over at NASA's READI for a new challenge — earthquake detection. The agency's GPS-monitoring system, known as the Real-time Earthquake Analysis for Disaster Mitigation Network, is being tested with the goal of more accurately detecting the scale of quakes and, consequently, getting tsunami warnings out as soon as possible.
2DayBlog.com, NASA READIs early detection GPS network, aids first responders with earthquake warnings
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