Thousands of miles of undersea cables that offer internet connectivity could help in monitoring seismic activity, detecting or predicting earthquakes, and even building climate change models.
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Google has announced a series of updates that it'll be making to its Google Maps application in order to help people prepare and respond to the effects of natural disasters such as hurricanes.
China's Ministry of Public Security has put four people into detention for causing panic by spreading false rumours that subsequent earthquakes, following the one in Sichuan, had hit the country.