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Sensor (Re)distribution in New Zealand
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 7 Feb 2012 | 4:34:02 UTC · Comment

New QCN Paper on New Zealand Earthquake
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 27 Jan 2012 | 13:07:17 UTC · Comment

President Obama Honors QCN 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.
20 Oct 2011 | 22:30:41 UTC · Comment

QCN article in the Washington Post regarding the M5.8 Virginia Earthquake
There's a good article on QCN in the Washington Post featuring volunteer 'citizen cyberscientist' Carolyn and her JW sensor which was close to (and detected) the earthquake in Virginia last week. 29 Aug 2011 | 23:04:30 UTC · Comment

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. The image (1MB PDF file) shows seismograms from stations at distances between 48 to 242 km (30 - 150 miles) from the earthquake epicenter. 23 Aug 2011 | 22:09:11 UTC · Comment

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 12 Aug 2011 | 22:29:36 UTC · Comment

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/sensor/download/qcnusb-mac.zip . Then click 'Reset' in BOINC Manager to get the new version. The problem is in the Mac 64-bit 'human interface' (HID ie joystick etc) library - so the Mac versions are now for 32-bit PPC and Intel. 27 Jul 2011 | 21:05:12 UTC · Comment

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. Also it appears that the JoyWarrior sensors will not be found under BOINC (although work for QCNLive). This is possibly a permissions problem that will have to be looked at. The internal Mac laptop sensor should still work under QCNLive or BOINC (after a BOINC reinstall). 25 Jul 2011 | 20:38:40 UTC · Comment

'Citizen-seismologists' sought to host tiny earthquake sensors on their computers
QCN is rolling out an effort to recruit San Francisco Bay Area volunteers for QCN, as noted in this Stanford press release. 7 Jul 2011 | 15:26:03 UTC · Comment

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. 16 Jun 2011 | 18:04:39 UTC · Comment

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