Luckily earthquakes are not something that us Brits ever really have to deal with but for the Japanese they are a regular occurrence. So it is surprising that it has taken the inhabitants of the tech savvy capital of the universe this long to come up with a mobile application that warns of their occurrence.
The Japanese mobile company NTT DoCoMo has created something that it calls Area Mail, an application that provides quick emergency reports delivered to mobiles that are in a specific danger area when seismic activity begins.
It certainly could be a life saving service, and the fact that the service only alerts those who are in immediate danger rather than panic those who are not at risk is a very clever feature.
(Via Tech-on)
