Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve ever been in an earthquake you’d assume it would be pretty easy to detect one. If things are shaking, there’s an earthquake. In reality, though, a lot of things can shake a sensitive instrument that is detecting shaking, so — for example — mechanical sensors will produce a …read more
A government-commissioned survey found that fluid injection at a geothermal plant in Pohang was a probable cause for the destructive quake. Continue reading A Geothermal Plant Likely Caused South Korea’s Second-Worst Earthquake
Scientists used the second largest earthquake on record to glimpse the terrain 410 miles under our planet’s surface. Continue reading Mountains Bigger Than Everest May Lie Deep Inside Earth
For those outside the rocking and rolling of California’s tectonic plate, earthquakes probably don’t come up on a daily basis as a topic of conversation. Regardless, the instrument to measure them is called a seismometer, and it’s entirely possible to build one yourself. [Bob LeDoux] has shared his article on how to build a Fluid Mass Electrolytic Seismometer, and it’s an impressive piece of work.
This is an instrument which works very differently from the typical needle-and-graph type seen in the movies. Fluid is held in a sealed chamber, with a restricted orifice in the center of a tube. The …read more
Some seismologists have speculated the strange waves could be related to volcanic activity. Continue reading Mysterious Waves Rippled Across the Earth and Scientists Don’t Know Why
The Raspberry Pi’s goal, at least while it was being designed and built, was to promote computer science education by making it easier to access a working computer. What its low price tag also enabled was a revolution in distributed computing projects (among other things). One of those projects is the Raspberry Shake, a seismograph tool which can record nearby earthquakes.
Of course, the project just uses the Pi as a cost-effective computing solution. It runs custom software, but if you want to set up your own seismograph then you’ll also need some additional hardware. There are different versions of …read more
Facebook apologizes for animated confetti and balloons that appeared on “I’m safe” posts during the Lombok earthquake.
Continue reading Facebook ‘regrets’ balloons and confetti triggered by earthquake posts
The volunteer rescue group is trying to save Italy from another devastating natural disaster. Continue reading Meet the Drone Squad That Wants to Catch Rockslides Before They Happen
The volunteer rescue group is trying to save Italy from another devastating natural disaster. Continue reading Meet the Drone Squad That Wants to Catch Rockslides Before They Happen
Seismic waves travel through the Earth’s crust at about four kilometers a second. Light travels through fiber at about 200,000 kilometers per second. Taking network lag into account, it’s possible to read a Tweet about an earthquake a few seconds before the shaking starts. This is the concept behind an XKCD strip and a project for the Hackaday Prize.
[Zalmotek]’s Earthquake Validation Gadget is an Internet-connected box designed for those few seconds between asking yourself, ‘is this an earthquake’ and saying, ‘yeah, this is totally an earthquake’. Inside this wall-mounted box is both a sensitive vibration sensor and a microcontroller …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Earthquake Warnings via Tweets