Quake-Catching's Best Weapon Could Be Your Home Laptop
In August of 2008, we covered a program called Quake-Catcher that turned laptop and desktop PCs (with a $50 USB sensor) into powerful data collecting tools for seismologists. Protecting the hard drive with an accelerometer (which is built into many a modern computer), Quake-Catcher is able to gather information about the size, speed, and strength of earthquakes.
At the time of its inception, ...








