[time-nuts] GPS, USGS Early Earthquake Warning

Brooke Clarke brooke at pacific.net
Mon Apr 30 21:15:31 UTC 2012


Hi Hal:

Thanks very much for that link.

I have a sensor on order.
http://www.prc68.com/I/Seismometer.shtml#QCN

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.end2partygovernment.com/Clarke4Congress.html


Hal Murray wrote:
> tvb at LeapSecond.com said:
>> Related to that, are there any seismometer experts on the list? I've always
>> wondered why they don't augment the extremely sensitive detectors with less
>> sensitive detectors? Of course a really good detector will overload; so just
>> co-locate cheap detectors that are 40 and 80 dB less sensitive. That way you
>> get a clean signal no matter how close or far the epicenter is from the
>> detector.
> I'm not a seismometer expert, but I live/worked close to the USGS Menlo Park
> campus.
>
> A couple days after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, I wandered over there to
> see if there was anything interesting for people like me to see.  I was in a
> glass enclosed walkway between two buildings.  They had a long (20 ft?)
> seismograph printout taped up high on one side.  The first foot or two had
> obviously saturated.  There was a guy next to me who looked like he might
> know something, so I asked, roughly, "Don't they have stations with the
> amplification turned down so it doesn't saturate?"  He gave me a dirty look
> and said "That was the low gain channel."
>
> I think there are two issues with saturation.  One is the electronics and
> communication channel.  The other is the instrument itself.
>
> There is probably a seismic-nuts list someplace.  There is a lot of good work
> going on in that area.
>
> My favorite seismic URL is:
>    The Yosemite Rock Fall of July 10, 1996
>    UC Berkeley Seismographic Station, Earthquake of the Week
>    http://seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo/events_of_interest/yosemite/eoi_yos.html
>
> For only slightly-geeky amateur seismology, try
>    QCN Quake-Catcher Network
>    http://qcn.stanford.edu/
> For $50 you can get a USB connected seismometer.  They provide software that
> will plug it into their data collection setup.
>
> Here is a good note:
>    http://qcn.stanford.edu/qcn-detects-earthquake-in-seconds
>
>
> Some/many modern fancy cell phones include accelerometers.  There is at least
> one app that turns your phone into a seismometer and displays a graph.
>
>




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