seismic
Science
Massive Hydroelectric Dams Could Have Caused the Sichuan Earthquake
3:00PM Elaine Chow | Some scientists are claiming that the Sichuan Earthquake, which killed over 70,000 people, might have been caused by a 150m-high dam constructed just 170m from the fault line. More »
Computers
Laptop Accelerometers Used to Study Earthquakes, Desk “Bumping”
2:20AM Jason Chen | Seismologists at Stanford are learning from their roommates over in the biology department and rigging up a distributed computing system to gather quake data from laptops with accelerometers. It’s used to save resources for scientists by using assets (your laptops) that are already deployed in a widespread area. They’re rolling this out primarily in quake-heavy areas like SF and LA, but should be spreading to other zones later.
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