An application, or app, developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has recorded nearly 400 earthquakes since it was launched in February this year.加州大学伯克利分校的研究人员研发的一款应用程序，自今年2月公布以来早已记录了近400次地震。The app, called MyShake, runs in the background on smartphones with the Android operating system, harnesses a devices motion detectors to measure ground motion, and then sends that data back to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory for analysis.该应用程序取名为MyShake，在安卓操作系统的智能手机后台运营，利用设备的运动检测器来测量地面运动，然后将数据发送到返伯克利地震实验室展开分析。Designed to build a worldwide network of smartphone earthquake detectors, the eventual goal of the researchers is to send early-warning alerts to users a bit farther from ground zero, giving them seconds to a minute of warning that the ground will start shaking and prompting them to switch off equipment.研究人员目的创建一个智能手机地震探测器的全球网络，最终目标是向距离地面零点很远的用户发送到预警，为他们获取几秒到一分钟的警报，报告地面将开始震动并提醒他们重开设备。

The app can detect quakes as small as magnitude 2.5, with the best sensitivity in areas with a greater density of phones.该应用程序可以检测到小至2.5级的地震，在手机密度更大的区域具备最佳灵敏度。The updated app provides an option for push notifications of recent quakes within a distance determined by the user.更新版的应用程序获取了在用户确认距离内的最近地震的启动时通报选项。The notifications will not be fast initially, not fast enough for early warning, but it puts into place the technology to deliver the alerts and we can then work toward making them faster and faster as we improve our real-time detection system within MyShake, said project leader Richard Allen.项目负责人理查德·阿伦回应：“这些通报最初会迅速，对早期预警的速度过于慢，但它构建了获取警报的技术，随着我们大大提高MyShake的动态检测系统，我们不会希望使它们显得越来越快。

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