New Delhi. The earthquake in Venezuela caused damage worth thousands of crores and also destroyed more than one lakh lives. Natural disasters often come so fast that there is no chance for rescue. Today, despite so much technological development, these disasters often cannot be prevented. The biggest reason for this is that information about these disasters is not received before time. But, Google has developed a feature that will give you information about the earthquake some time before it occurs. That too, this information will reach you at lightning speed.

Even before the deadly earthquake in Venezuela, Google had sent information about it to people’s mobile phones. Many people shared the screenshot of this message on social media and claimed that Google had given information about this shortly before the earthquake. People have told on social media that two earthquakes occurred in Venezuela, which caused massive destruction there. In this, the intensity of the first earthquake was 7.4 on the Richter scale, while the intensity of the second was 7.2. Google had sent notifications to people’s mobile phones shortly before the arrival of both these earthquakes.

What was in Google Alert
Shortly before the earthquake in Venezuela, Google sent a notification to mobile users telling them at what distance the disaster was and when it was going to come. Google has said in its earthquake alert that the earthquake of about 6.2 Richter scale is at a distance of 341 kilometers. People have shared the screenshot of this notification on social media platform X and said that Google had shared information related to this earthquake on every mobile.

Sends alerts at the speed of light
Google’s earthquake notification service is quite special and after collecting this data, its message is sent to people’s mobile phones at lightning speed. This service of Google detects the speed and direction of earthquake with the help of nearby smartphones. As soon as it detects an earthquake, it sends the information to the mobile at the speed of light. Google has a network of 2 billion mobile phones, through which it collects earthquake data. After this it sends two types of notifications. One alert is sent related to a light earthquake and the other related to a strong earthquake.

How does this feature work?
Nowadays modern mobile phones come with accelerometer, which detects the rotation of the smartphone. Then the mobile screen is converted into landscape mode and normal mode. This feature also detects vibration and Google’s system detects earthquakes and phone vibrations with the help of this sensor. Google’s feature collects data from millions of mobile phones and assesses whether the vibration is from an earthquake or a mobile phone. Once an earthquake is detected, its message is sent at the speed of light to nearby mobile phones.