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.
more info →
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!
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 …
Read More →Mac OS X ‘Lion’ Upgrade Problems (JoyWarrior Not Found)
If you are upgrading your Mac to use the new ‘Lion’ version of OS X – there are some issues with BOINC and QCN you may want to consider. It may be necessary to reinstall BOINC after the upgrade due to a permission problem detected. …
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 →QCN Server Upgrades Starting Thursday June 16th
The servers are being upgraded today, and you may notice that they are down when you are trying to connect. This will hopefully be a temporarily problem. ]]>
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. ]]>
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