Quake-Catcher Aims to be Largest Distributed Seismometer Network
Posted by: in Life and ScienceNature is reporting that a new distributed computing application is looking to monitor earthquake data using the accelerometer in many computing devices. In the long run, “Quake-Catcher” will hopefully be fast enough to give warning before major earthquakes. “If it works, it will be the cheapest seismic network on the planet and could operate in any country. It wouldn’t be as sensitive as traditional networks of seismometers, but Lawrence says that’s not the point. ‘If you’ve only two sensors in an area, you’ve to have a perfect system. If you’ve 15 sensors in a system it [can] be less perfect. One hundred, one thousand, ten thousand — your need for the system to be perfect becomes much smaller,’ he says. ‘That’s really our approach — just to have large numbers.’”
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