Here’s a tip for Australians out there after the 5.3 magnitude earthquake the struck Victoria yesterday.<\/p>\n
I use a service called “If This Then That” or Ifttt<\/strong> for short which is a great way of getting the output of an online service and piping it into something else that may not be natively supported by the outputting platform. A great example of this is if you want to get an SMS on your mobile phone when a particular person tweets or something specific appears in an RSS feed somewhere.<\/p>\n Anyway, if you fancy receiving a notification of an earthquake occurring in or around Australia then check out my Ifttt recipe here<\/a>. In a nutshell, it takes the RSS feed from the United States Geological Survey website<\/a>\u00a0and looks for the word “Australia”. Any matches will be transmitted via SMS to the mobile phone number you nominate. Bear in mind, you won’t get pre-warning of an earthquake but within about fifteen minutes of a quake you should be able to find out its magnitude and origin a lot faster than the online news outlets could muster yesterday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a tip for Australians out there after the 5.3 magnitude earthquake the struck Victoria yesterday. I use a service called “If This Then That” or Ifttt for short which is a great way of getting the output of an online service and piping it into something else that may not be natively supported by … <\/p>\n