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Stabilizing Force: OSU researchers create ‘smoke alarm’ for earthquakes

Intact — a seismic device about the size of a shoebox — is simple to use: Just clamp it to a structure's foundation, and it connects to the WiFi, sending data to servers that can provide a digital footprint for the building. This allows people
Stabilizing Force: OSU researchers create ‘smoke alarm’ for earthquakes
Stabilizing Force: OSU researchers create ‘smoke alarm’ for earthquakes

Wed, Sep 24, 2025

Intact — a seismic device about the size of a shoebox — is simple to use: Just clamp it to a structure's foundation, and it connects to the WiFi, sending data to servers that can provide a digital footprint for the building. This allows people

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