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Article: Be Part of the Seismic Network
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- Professional Safety
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright American Society of Safety Engineers Jan 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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With the public's help, the Quake-Catcher Network seeks to expand the seismic network, to improve early warning.
An earthquake detection network launched earlier this year is engaging the public in collecting earthquake data by simply using their laptop computers. The Quake-Catcher Network was developed by Elizabeth Cochran, a seismologist at UC Riverside, as a way to augment the existing network of earthquake monitoring stations.
The project makes use of inexpensive motion sensors-called accelerometers-that are found in most modern laptops. The project involves distributed computing, a method in which different parts of a computer program run simultaneously on two or more computers that ...