Most of them are working for Banks in USA doing consulting work. I am not sure how much innovating is brought to the forefront by IIT- USA and Japan has been doing work on quake predictions for years- with minimal success.
IIT quality gone to dogs due to 40% reservations to lowIQ students.
The articles attracts all patriotic Indians then we realise they are talking about a Calfornia IIT! and ofcouse the Indian IIT is doing some minute percentage!
Finally it is up to Bangali lazy Babu manning the station. He would be on Months holiday during which no one his junior can take any dicision. Remember the Koshi river changing its course. Nepal gave warning a month before. But Boss was away on Holiday. So no one acted for fear of losing their Job.
... Let us accept that earthquake prediction devises are in market for a long, long time - I guess more than 30 years or so. But the problem is the accuracy of prediction.
Even in this new device, it is mentioned: "If these sensors detect accelerations above a threshold it will send a message to a central server that it has detected a seismic wave and will send the magnitude of this wave to the server,"
It is about detecting the "correct" acceleration and the fact that detection happens without flaw.
I live in Japan. This is already available in Japan. We get alarm in our mobile immediately after an earthquake. Probably, the nearest telephone tower from the epicenter spread the warning little faster than the quake propagation. This is very helpful for us as we know from the alert that now earthquake will come. The destruction in Japan was caused by the Tsunami, not by the earthquake. Though there was a tsunami alert system, but the time was not enough to escape. Remember that the Fukushima plant was also affected by the Tsunami. Please search for the Wikipedia page “Earthquake Early Warning in Japan”, scroll down to read the mobile alert system!
I am living in Japan. This is already available in Japan. We get alarm in our mobile immediately after an earthquake. Probably, the nearest telephone tower from the epicenter spread the warning little faster than the quake propagation. This is very helpful for us as we know from the alert that now earthquake will come. The destruction in Japan was caused by the Tsunami, not by the earthquake. Though there was a tsunami alert system, but the time was not enough to escape. Remember that the Fukushima plant was also affected by the Tsunami. Please check this link and scroll down to read the mobile alert system! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Early_Warning_(Japan)
If it was so simle that two students, may be undergraduate of an so called IIT (GANDHINAGAR? hahaha) can develop. Then JAPANESE would have done it 200 years before. This is only media hype and REDIFF is good platform for such trash
