The next level, by having a seismic sensor implanted under her skin that vibrates when there is an earthquake. Moon Ribas feels every earthquake on the planet in real time, as the chip in her arm is connected to a smartphone app that in turn is connected to geological monitors around the globe. The 30-year old dancer calls herself a ‘cyborg artist’ after having the vibrating chip implanted near her elbow three years ago. When Nepal was devastated by a 7.8 magnitude quake last year, the vibrations were so strong it woke Ribas up in the middle of the night. ‘It felt very weird, like I was there,’ she says. ‘I feel connected to the people who suffer through an earthquake.’The April 2015 quake destroyed some parts of Nepal, killed over 8,000 people, injured more than 21,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Ribas, who puts on dance performances where she interprets the vibrations in her arm and translates them into movement, added that she feels that ‘earthquakes are misunderstood’. ‘I think it’s unfair that our perception of earthquakes are all bad.The bad thing is that humans haven’t adapted to this natural phenomenon.’ -
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