Preliminary magnitude 3.5 earthquake hits near Baldwin Hills

New research from the United States shows that ordinary smartphone sensors could one day be used to give several seconds' warning of an earthquake.

The sensors inside your smartphone can do much more than track your daily jog and work out which way round you're holding your handset — they can also be utilized to warn of impending earthquakes, too. Using our personal gadgets as part of an early 

The stranding of so many dolphins has prompted comparisons with a similar incident in 2011, when 50 melon headed whales beached themselves on a nearby coast just six days before a magnitude-9 earthquake struck offshore, triggering a massive tsunami 

The sensors inside your smartphone can do much more than track your daily jog and work out which way round you're holding your handset — they can also be utilized to warn of impending earthquakes, too. Using our personal gadgets as part of an early 

A 3.5-magnitude earthquake rocked the South Los Angeles area Sunday night, hours after a smaller temblor struck, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS provided this graphic after a magnitude-3.5 earthquake