Collecting earthquake disaster area information using smart phone

In recent years, the number of major earthquakes has increased and caused severe damage to buildings and other rigid structures and even large number of casualties. Timely and accurate earthquake disaster information is required for quick rescue response. As the popularity of smart phones which offers a more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a phone, we introduce an earthquake disaster area information collection system using smart phones which allows the public to use their phones to upload pictures, videos, texts and demands data of earthquake disaster area to the backend server, and we also detail the algorithm of selecting an earthquake for a picture or video according their GPS location. It is useful for commander to make a fast and good rescue solution for emergency response.