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 →
QCN in the Classroom
CBS news in Los Angeles interviewed teachers and students in Chaffey Union Joint High School District. Watch the story here.
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Update Project in BOINC
With the move to Caltech complete, we encourage you to update the project URL to ensure proper functionality going forward. In BOINC please detach from qcn.stanford.edu/sensor and attach to project: qcn.caltech.edu/sensor. Detailed instructions: Open BOINC Manager Remove qcn.stanford.edu/sensor: Go to ‘View’ –> ‘Advanced View’ Click …
Read More →QCN Moved to CalTech on July 13th 2015!
After almost eight years at Stanford, the QCN project servers moved to Caltech on 7/13/2015 and are now hosted in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS). All of us on QCN wish to thank the staff at Caltech for hosting us (and at short notice) – …
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In Nepal? Download QCN on Your Smartphone or Tablet
QCN App for BOINC on Android Available
QCN now runs on Android ARM-processor devices (phones, tablets, etc) via BOINC for Android, which is available on the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc It is recommended to run using the default settings – ie QCN will run on your Android device when it’s charging (“at …
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QCN 2013 Meeting
QCN researchers met at Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco on December 11, 2013. The event included the speakers who actively involve to the QCN project. The agenda and presentation files can be downloaded from the following links (click the links to download): https://www.dropbox.com/s/d55rimdgjlvsupi/QCN_MEETING_2013.zip and …
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QCN Explorer
Want to make your own simulations of earthquakes and see what happens with a network of QCN sensors? Check out the QCN Explorer! QCN Explorer allows users to simulate how the QCN responds to an earthquake with various numbers and distributions of QCN sensors.
Read More →QCN Source Code Available on github
We are opening up the source code for QCN for those of you who want to experiment (for example) with QCNLive and the sensors. The code is under the “LGPL” license (as are dependencies such as BOINC, Qt, etc) There are project workspace for Windows …
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