The earthquake detection algorithm running on the phones was designed using past earthquake data (from traditional seismic networks but modified to be phone-like quality), shake table data, and human activity data recorded on the smartphones. We used an ANN to design the algorithm and to distinguish earthquakes from human activities. The processing of data and steps are described in detail in the Supplementary Materials.
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