The Quake-Catcher Network
The Quake-Catcher Network is a collaborative initiative for developing the world’s largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers. With your help, the Quake-Catcher Network can provide better understanding of earthquakes, give early warning to schools, emergency response systems, and others. The Quake-Catcher Network also provides educational software designed to help teach about earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
Install
A small and low maintenance motion sensor is installed along with the free QCN software.more info →
Monitor
Sensor data reveals near real-time readings of earthquake locations, and magnitude.
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Share
Host computers upload their sensor data directly to the online QCN network to be processed.more info →
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NEES/QCN Open House for Future Teachers
NEES@UCSB personnel hosted an open house for future science teachers in the Givertz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara in April 2013. Sandra Seale and Francesco Civilini, NEES project specialists, gave a training session in “Make Your Own Earthquake” using the QCN sensor. …
Read More →QCN Featured in TEDx Talk
Project collaborator Debi Kilb gave a TEDx talk on ‘Using Videogames to Cultivate Future Scientists’ which includes a videogame created around the QCN project. Check out the video of her talk here. Associate Project Scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, studies …
Read More →New QCN Software Released (v.7.29), Windows 8 Compatibility
There are new versions of QCN/BOINC and QCNLive for all platforms, due to upgrades in the BOINC libraries as well as the development tools on Mac (Xcode4) and Windows (VS2010). There is no longer support for the MotionNode accelerometer, nor for the Mac PowerPC (PPC) …
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Using QCN and BOINC With the Raspberry Pi Micro Computer
If you are interested in the tiny and inexpensive (US $35) Raspberry Pi computer you may be interested to know that you can run QCN and BOINC on it using our Debian “Wheezy” Linux distribution image, or try it with our BOINC compiled for the …
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Using the Nintendo Wii Nunchuk on QCN
Here is something of interest to electronics hobbyists: QCN Participant Jonathan Thomson has hacked together a way to use the Nintendo Wii Nunchuk controller as a QCN accelerometer. His work is documented at his blog
Read More →Angela Chung Receives 2012-2013 Stanford-USGS Fellowship
Please join us in celebrating Angela Chung’s great news. She will be the 2012-2013 Stanford-USGS fellow. Angela is a 4th year PhD student in Geophysics at Stanford working on many aspects of QCN. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Angela will continue to work on all …
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QCN Detects Earthquake in Seconds
On Tuesday at 5:33AM, QCN detected a magnitude 4 earthquake near Berkeley, California within seconds of the earthquake origin. The event was detected 5-7 seconds before the strong shear waves reached Stanford University, where the QCN servers are located.
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QCN at 2012 International Symposium on Grids and Clouds
Jesse and I (Angie) are here in Taipei, Taiwan at the Asia@home workshop at the 2012 International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2012/asiaathome.html). It’s been fascinating to hear all about QCN in Taiwan and all the work the teams here have been doing in such …
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