Quake-Catcher Project to use laptops to detect earthquakes

[Blauhung]

a new DC program

Monitoring earthquakes is tricky business. They occur very sporadically in both space and time, so to record them you need a continuously operating measurement network. Such networks are traditionally very expensive both to install, and to operate. What if there was a better way? It turns out there might be. The brainchild of University of California-Riverside professor Elizabeth Cochran, the Quake-Catcher Network wants to do for seismic monitoring what SETI@home did for the search for extra-terrestrial life.

article at Ars
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...rthquakes.html

Homepage
http://qcn.ucr.edu/index.html

I'm pretty sure this isn't april fools, but could be wrong. Nice idea anyway.

[lithpiperpilot]

I doubt it's a joke, but more a grad student's theoretical program, that never got off the ground.