Things like this sound cool, but looking at their site (http://seismo.berkeley.edu/) they have plenty of spots on their maps, but it seems that this simply pulls the data from usgs.gov - not their own app. Was anyone in Kansas or Christchurch running this app on the weekend - if so, what did you see?

Google and Apple should integrate this idea directly into their mobile operating systems (as an opt-in). If this reached a critical mass, it would be a huge community service to millions. Putting it into the OS would minimize latency, and have relatively small development costs.

We are working on the same problem at http://www.zizmos.com/ :).