November 5, 2008 We're often surprised by the unforeseen applications that emerge when lateral thinking is applied to new technology - and this is certainly one of them. The Quake-Catcher Network aims ...

He made the remarks in a ceremony held in Tehran on Saturday for unveiling an earthquake warning system with 22 seismic accelerometer stations, the second phase of flood warning forecasting system, ...

Endevco chose Sensors Expo to highlight its new Model 87 low-noise compact seismic accelerometer. Designed specifically for measuring ultra-low-level seismic events and low-frequency vibration on ...

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. — Endevco Corp. says it has introduced the industry's lowest noise compact seismic accelerometer that is 70 percent lighter than traditional IEPE accelerometers. The model ...

University of California, Berkeley, scientists are releasing a free Android app that taps a smartphone's ability to record ground shaking from an earthquake, with the goal of creating a worldwide ...

High Wycombe, United Kingdom - 24th May 2007 - Monitran, a world leader in the design and manufacture of vibration sensors, has launched a high-sensitivity, low-frequency seismic accelerometer. The ...

Back in 2020, Google kicked off a project to crowdsource signals from Android phones that an earthquake might be imminent. The system leveraged the accelerometers inside these devices to gather ...

A tiny chip used in smart phones to adjust the orientation of the screen could serve to create a real-time urban seismic network, easily increasing the amount of strong motion data collected during a ...

The impact of an earthquake on people and property depends not only on the earthquake's characteristics like magnitude and depth, but also on local soil conditions, which contribute to the so-called ...

The Wilcoxon Research Model 731A seismic accelerometer is designed for measuring both seismic and ultra-low level, low frequency vibrations. Specifying a noise performance of 0.5 μg rms and with a ...

Sensor networks to detect earthquakes are expensive, and many nations have only rudimentary seismic networks. Seismologists have now developed an app that turns smartphones into sensors to collect ...