On Friday Google reported that she had disabled her alert system in Brazil, after erroneously dismissed a notification of the earthquake near the coast of San Paolo to mobile users with an Android operating system.
“We promptly disable the alert system in Brazil and are investigating what happened. We apologize to our users for the inconvenience and we commit ourselves to improving our tools,” said Google in a note.
The Android Earthquake alarm system is a technology developed by Google that uses Android cell phones to estimate the vibrations of the earthquake and offer notices for users.
The National Observatory confirmed that Google shot in the early hours of Friday two warnings of alleged earthquakes at sea, 55 km from Ubatuba (SP), for the residents of the state capital and Rio de Janeiro, but there is no registration of Region seismic activities.
According to a declaration by the agency, the Brazilian seismographic network (RSBR), its coordination, as well as the international institutions of seismic monitoring, did not detect any seismic event on the Brazilian coast during this period, which confirms that the warning issued was a ” false positive “.
“The Android system uses the accelerometer of cell phones to identify possible tremors, but something is not adequately calibrated in Brazil, which can lead to incorrect notifications,” said the RSBR coordinator and the national observers Sergio Fontes observers in the declaration.
Google, controlled by Alphabet, also declared that its warning system was not designed to replace any other official alarm system, noting that technology acts as a “complementary system”.
Source: Terra
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