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Earthquakes are now more common than an election in India. If you look at the last few years, there have been major earthquakes reported across the world including devastating earthquake in Haiti and Japan earthquake.

So how can you detect the earthquake without having the actual seismograph device? Well, you can turn your mobile device into a Seismograph device and can detect an earthquake with your mobile.

Whether you have a Nokia phone, Android phone, iPhone/iPad/iPod or Sony PSP, you can use all these devices to detect an earthquake.

Detect Earthquake using Nokia Devices

If you have a Nokia phone, you can use an application called "Seismograph Touch" on your Nokia phone that uses the device ’s built-in accelerometer to detect the activities and shows you the graph on the screen. The application is compatible with the devices that has a built in accelerometer though. The application is available for free in Ovi Store.

Detect Earthquake using Android Phones

Most of the android phones comes with built in accelerometer. Android Marketplace has quite a few application that will convert your Android phone into Seismograph. One of such app is "Seismo Wallpaper". One cool thing about this application is that you don't have to open up an app and keep it running to measure the earthquake. This application installs as a regular wallpaper on your phone. Seismo Wallpaper uses your Android device's accelerometer to measure movements on any axis with/without noise.

Detect Earthquake using Sony PlayStation Portable

If you have a Playstation Portable, you can buy one of these PSP Motion Kit and can turn your PSP into a Seismograph device. See the Seismograph in Action on PSP

Detect Earthquake using Windows Phone

If you have Microsoft Windows phone, don't worry. YOu can too detect an earthquake using your mobile phone. Seismo is the app for you. Thge application uses the accelerometer and draws a small graph. It uses the g-sensor managed DLL and need the .Net Compact Framework 3.5 to run this on your Windows phone. (Order Windows Mobile Phones) - head here for Seismo Windows Phone .CAB file download

Detect Earthquake on iPad/iPhone/iPod

For iPhones/iPods and iPads, there are plenty of mobile applications that can be used to detect earthquake. Just go to your App Store and search.. hehe.. but here is a simple browser based trick. Visit isthisanearthquake.com on your iPhone/iPod/iPad or Google Chrome on Mac and it will detect the motions using phone's built in accelerometer.