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From: Mark Zenier on 8 Jul 2010 13:39
In article <0abc3193-ed7d-452e-84c1-f052b23d0738(a)s24g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
Rich Grise on Google groups <richardgrise(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>I was reading today about the recent earthquakes in and near so. Cal,
>and they
>were talking about how difficult it is to analyze faults and stuff -
>they were wondering
>how the quakes had affected nearby faults.
>
>So I came up with this idea: How about a little home seismometer, that
>sells for
>about twenty bucks, maybe even with a GPS (I don't konw how cheap they
>are these
>days, but accelerometers are almost free), and an ethernet connection
>- somebody
>could set up a central sort of monitoring place, and write some
>software to analyze
>movements and so on, to give an indication of seismic activity - maybe
>it could lead
>to some sort of early warning system!
>

>Whaddaya think?

Been done, if you count computer apps. Google "laptop seismometer cochran"
for Dr. Elizabeth Cochran's (UC-Riverside) program using the existing
accelerometers in various portable electronics.

Mark Zenier mzenier(a)eskimo.com
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

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