Yeah, it's an interesting idea.<br>I read something similar on Evil Mad Scientist <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/seismometry2">http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/seismometry2</a><br><br>The detection/pinpointing part requires both accurate detection of shaking and timing - obviously the timing is critical for triangulation.<br>
<br>I think the *cool* factor for something like this would be the ability to measure a persons actual physical experience of an earthquake. There are *lots* of existing seismometers that will do the *fixed* point detection a whole lot better, but none (that I know of) that will be (relatively) unobtrusive to the users daily life and still give an actual measurement of physical shaking intensity.<br>
<br>You shouldn't have to wait that long for e/q info... In New Zealand the news media mostly regurgitate what we post on <a href="http://www.geonet.org.nz/">http://www.geonet.org.nz/</a> <br>There's near-realtime shaking info on the front page, and if there's actually an earthquake people can submit a "Felt Report" to tell us how they experienced it.<br>
It would be really cool to see how a personal accelerometer trace correlates to the fuzzy-logic of the felt report!<br><br><br>End thoughts...<br><br>--<br>Rich<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brandon Kruger</b> <<a href="mailto:bmk789@gmail.com">bmk789@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
After recently having a 5.2 earthquake here in the Midwest, I realized the<br> potential in the Openmoko for detecting/pinpointing earthquakes. What this<br> is mostly dependant on is the accuracy of the accelerometers in the<br>
Freerunner. From what I've read, Macbooks' accelerometers and detect and<br> measure earthquakes fairly accurately. [1] If the Freerunner's<br> accelerometers are precise enough and it could be attached to a fixed ground,<br>
we could use GPS to retreive an accurate location and record and upload<br> accelerometer data to a database. Many different devices running this could<br> provide intensity levels at many different locations and (at least fairly<br>
accurately), pinpoint an epicenter. This data could become useful to<br> researchers and would provide information about an earthquake faster than<br> almost any news network would provide.<br> <br> Thoughts?<br> <br> [1] <a href="http://www.suitable.com/tools/seismac.html">http://www.suitable.com/tools/seismac.html</a><br>
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