A busy day on the stand with lots of oohs and ahhs as I spun the dial on Quick Quake to come up with the earthquake solution. Educators very excited about the prospect of using it in class with their students. I got to spend a bit of time at…
After arriving and realising that our exhibition stand was basically an empty piece of concrete floor with a backdrop curtain, with the help my friends from Guralp UK (who are also my stand neighbours) I quickly arranged some bright red carpet and a red draped table to roughly match our…
Australia’s latest addition to the AuScope seismic monitoring instrumentation pool are ready for deployment. Manufactured by the earthquake sensor experts at Guralp Systems in the UK, these 20 OBS units will be dropped to the sea floor at depths of up to 6 kilometres. The pressures at these depths are extreme, so all of…
We’ve created a short video explaining in simple terms how the energy waves generated by earthquakes are recorded by seismographs, and how these wiggly lines are interpreted by seismologists to calculate the location and magnitude of the events. You can view the video on our YouTube channel. It also features a…
