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M5.8 Earthquake in Virginia
Several QCN stations on the East Coast of the US recorded a M5.8 earthquake that occurred just outside of Mineral, Virgina at 17:51:04 UTC on 23 August 2011. Click here to view seismograms recorded by QCN stations at distances between 48 to 242 km (30 …
Read More →‘Citizen-seismologists’ sought to host tiny earthquake sensors on their computers
The construction is proprietary from the manufacturer “O-Navi.” You can buy QCN “construction kits” from another supported sensor (the JoyWarrior, from codemercs.com) ]]>
Read More →Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin, Germany (June 28th-July 1st)
Carl from QCN will be presenting at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin on June 29th (workshop on ‘open science’) and June 30th (panel discussion). ]]>
Read More →Asia@home Hackfest Videos Available
Thanks to BOINC & QCN participant ‘dudumomo’ – videos of the recent ‘Asia@home Hackfest’ are now available via torrent download. Each download is a few hundred MB and features talks by David Anderson of SETI@home and BOINC, and Carl Christensen and Elizabeth Cochran of QCN. …
Read More →2011 China Drumbeat Hackfest March 23-25, 2011
Carl from QCN is presenting at the 2011 China Drumbeat Hackfest in Beijing from March 23-25th, 2011. The goal is to encourage volunteer computing and ‘citizen science’ application development. Programmers are welcome! ]]>
Read More →Asia@home Hackfest March 19-23, 2011
QCN is participating in the Asia@home Hackfest. The goal of the event is bring more seismology applications to run under BOINC, and possibly deploy QCN in Taiwan. ]]>
Read More →February 21, 2011 M6.3 Earthquake in Christchurch Recorded on QCN Stations
On February 21, 2011 at 23:51 (UTC) a M6.3 earthquake occurred just outside of Christchurch, New Zealand. Several QCN stations installed in and around Christchurch recorded this earthquake. Due to the shallow depth of this event and proximity to Christchurch the shaking was quite severe …
Read More →QCN at AGU Conference
If you are going to the AGU Fall Conference in San Francisco next week, please look us up at our various exhibits/posters. ]]>
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