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Android Earthquake Alerts System

set aside as

DEFINITION REJECTS

the researcher's note

Android Earthquake Alerts System. Provisional reject, and I would like it revisited. The Science paper (Allen et al., 2025, doi 10.1126/science.ads4779) says only "smartphone-based earthquake detection algorithms"; Google's own blog describes the accelerometer trigger and the server-side aggregation without naming anything fit to data. Only secondary write-ups call it machine learning. Under "never by suspicion" that is a reject; a line in the paper's methods naming a trained detector or a fitted magnitude estimator would make this one of the largest severe-benefit rows available anywhere.

proposed by

researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, severe-benefits

received

2026-09-06T17:40:15-04:00

harvest report

impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-severe-benefits.md

Rulings, in order

1. 2026-09-06T17:40:15-04:00 · researcherreject-definition — Android Earthquake Alerts System. Provisional reject, and I would like it revisited. The Science paper (Allen et al., 2025, doi 10.1126/science.ads4779) says only "smartphone-based earthquake detection algorithms"; Google's own blog describes the accelerometer trigger and the server-side aggregation without naming anything fit to data. Only secondary write-ups call it machine learning. Under "never by suspicion" that is a reject; a line in the paper's methods naming a trained detector or a fitted magnitude estimator would make this one of the largest severe-benefit rows available anywhere.

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