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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 20:51:44 EST lnxw48a1

Hmm. Now that's an idea. Someone should design a build your own seismograph kit that people could use to deploy quake measuring stations across the nation and the world.

I imagine there would be a wide variation in the data quality produced, and even the best would be no match for the stations that geologists use. But they might give some better insight into things like shaking force contours, time of arrival / speed of various types of quake shaking waves, and locations of man-made shaking / vibration sources that could potentially distort the readings of individual stations.

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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 21:04:58 EST lnxw48a1
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  https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/may2012_Newton
  
  At least I know the idea is not unique with me.
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    Build the Poor Man’s Seismograph
    
    from Nuts and Volts Magazine
  1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 21:41:34 EST GeniusMusing
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    @lnxw48a1
    This also looks interesting.
    
    Build a seismograph with Raspberry Shake — The MagPi magazine
    https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/build-a-seismograph-with-raspberry-shake
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      Build a seismograph with Raspberry Shake — The MagPi magazine
      
      from The MagPi magazine
      
      Make an earthquake detector using Raspberry Pi and Shake sensors, then connect to a global network to get involved in citizen science at its finest
    1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Dec-2021 00:06:46 EST lnxw48a1
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      Raspberry Shake is sort of expensive. I'm interested, but I don't think I can spend that kind of money.
      
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      1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Dec-2021 15:35:41 EST GeniusMusing
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        Yikes! I didn't look at the cost, I did find other ways of DIY seismograph. The mouse one looks interesting.
        
        Low-cost seismograph using optical mouse Hackaday.io
        https://hackaday.io/project/180984-low-cost-seismograph-using-optical-mouse
        
        Build A Seismometer Out Of Plumbing Parts Hackaday
        https://hackaday.com/2019/01/22/build-a-seismometer-out-of-plumbing-parts/
        
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        Low-cost seismograph using optical mouse
        
        The "seis-mouse-meter" (a name coined by our team) is an outcome of the 2020 Frugal Science course (frugalscience.org), where we participants were challenged with solving crowd sourced global problems with frugal solutions. Our chosen problem was to detect and warn of crop raiding elephants in rural India, which cause much damage and human animal violent conflict inducing loss of lives on both sides. Our simple hack was to use an ordinary computer optical mouse's inbuilt high speed camera and surface features detection hardware as a vibration detector. This could be used to sense the long distance (about 10km) seismic waves generated in the ground when these heavy animals walk or rumble or talk to each other. Such a device could be part of a frugal and low cost early warning system in vulnerable villages, preventing potential conflicts and losses. It could also act as an environmental tool to monitor anthropologenic noise pollution in the infrasound range.
        
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        Build A Seismometer Out Of Plumbing Parts
        
        By Lewin Day from Hackaday
        
        For those outside the rocking and rolling of California’s tectonic plate, earthquakes probably don’t come up on a daily basis as a topic of conversation. Regardless, the instrument to m…

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