Jeff Geerling | Can you predict an earthquake? @JeffGeerling | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
For decades, researchers like Dr. Bob Herman relied on paper and ink to study earthquakes. The Raspberry Shake helps geophysicists get more data around the world as citizen scientists can participate in ShakeNet, a global aggregation of real-time seismic data!

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Mentioned in this video:

- Raspberry Shake: raspberryshake.org
- SLU's Earthquake Center: https://www.eas.slu.edu/eqc/
- SLU's real-time seismograms: https://www.eas.slu.edu/eqc/eqc_netrt/eqcnetrt.html

Contents:

00:00 - Meet Raspberry Shake
01:21 - An actual expert
01:57 - Smoke paper and sesimographs
03:16 - More data, less travel
05:08 - Seismic vaults
07:18 - A sensitive subject
09:26 - How's the Shake stack up?
11:06 - My First Earthquake
12:08 - Who cares about seismology?
15:11 - Citizen science on a global scale