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 →
San Francisco Bay Area Residents! Sign up here!
Earthquake in Christchurch
Watch this video and see a M5.2 earthquake send seismic waves across Christchurch, New Zealand on October 4, 2010. The circles show the location of seismic stations that recorded the event, including 118 QCN sensors and 29 GeoNet stations. The colors denote the intensity of …
Read More →New Zealand Sensor (Re)distribution
GeoNet in New Zealand are looking to redistribute some QCN sensors in the area, if you are interested please see the GeoNet/QCN Press Release.
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Catch This!
QCN is introducing a research blog. We encourage you to follow along as we describe our recent observations, and explain how we’re impacting the scientific, local, and global communities. M3.9 Orange County, California Earthquake April 23, 2012 A M3.9 earthquake struck Orange, County California today. …
Read More →New QCN Paper on New Zealand aftershock sensor deployment
A new paper on QCN’s work in New Zealand is available from the Annals of Geophysics: Comparison between low-cost and traditional MEMS accelerometers: a case study from the M7.1 Darfield, New Zealand, aftershock deployment
Read More →President Obama Honors Quake-Catcher Network Inventor Elizabeth Cochran
QCN is proud to announce that Prof. Cochran has received a ‘Presidential Early Career Award’ from President Obama. Read more at the USGS website.
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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 …
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New ONavi Sensor Windows Drivers Released
We are testing new drivers – if you are running a 32 or 64-bit Windows system, which is having trouble detecting or using the ONavi USB sensor, please refer to this message board thread for download links to the new drivers: http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor/forum_thread.php?id=666
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Fix for Mac OS X Lion and JoyWarrior Sensors
I have built new Mac QCN clients and drivers to fix the problem with the new ‘Lion’ OS X upgrade and the JoyWarrior. Download and install the new driver from http://qcn.stanford.edu/download/qcnusb-mac.zip . Then click ‘Reset’ in BOINC Manager to get the new version. The problem …
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