Earthquake Notifications in Real-Time
February 7th, 2005This morning, PubSub went live with our new feature: Earthquake notifications. From the press release:
“A simple new notification system launched today giving consumers and technology developers easier and more immediate access to time-critical data on global earthquake and tsunami activity.
“Seismological activity from the USGS is published in an archaic technical format that’s inaccessible both to the average person and to technology developers using modern programming tools. This older format has made it difficult to quickly distribute relevant USGS information through consumer- friendly mediums like the Web, email or wireless phones,” said Bob Wyman, chief technology officer of PubSub Concepts, Inc.
“We realized our Internet-scale matching and notification system was ideal for making this critical data more easily and quickly available to the average person. So we’ve developed a system to translate the USGS technical feed into XML — the standard language of the Web,” he said.”
Don’t forget to check out our other offerings as well. More to come this week…