Quake-Catcher Network. Ordinary Laptops Act as Earthquake Detectors. Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? Join the club Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Most people use their laptops for work and Web browsing.
From the recent early-morning 4.4-magnitude jostle in Los Angeles to February's magnitude 8.8 disaster in Chile, ordinary laptops are increasingly acting as miniature seismic stations. About 1,000 people from 61 countries have signed up so far. Article continues below "It's providing additional data that can be fed into the seismic networks," said Elizabeth Cochran, a UC Riverside geoscientist. Sensing motion An affordable quake detector. Country clean-up project "Lets Do It 2008" / Teeme Ära 2008. For Citizen Scientists. Citizen Scientists have helped to answer serious scientific questions, provide vital data to the astronomical community, and have discovered thousands of objects including nebulas, supernovas, and gamma ray bursts.
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