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station dot com code tech news welcome to tech crunch daily news a round up of the

top tech news of the day.

Google is using accelerometers in an interesting new way.

Twitter allows everyone to limit tweet replies,

and Mozilla announces major layoffs.

This is your daily crunch.

The big story is Google said that smartphone accelerometers

are sensitive enough to detect P waves,

which are the first waves to arrive during an earthquake.

So if your Android phone thinks it has detected an earthquake, it will communicate with a central

server to confirm.

In California, Google is also partnering with the United States Geological Survey and California

Governor's Office of Emergency Services to provide earthquake alerts.

For everyone else, you'll only see this earthquake data if you search for earthquake or a similar

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