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For up-to-date news and comments from the SRC, make sure you follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter. Our Earthquake News page has information on significant earthquakes, but for the smaller events that you could feel we might only post information to social media. There’s also our YouTube channel where we will occasionally put…

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Installing a Seismograph

Here is a quick video showing the steps to establish a basic seismic monitoring station using an SRC seismograph system. In this example no outcropping rock was available in the area, so a metre-deep concrete pier was built (10% above ground) with a farm-gate fence to protect the hut from…

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Gecko SMA Preview

Here’s a sneak peek at our Gecko-based SMA. An all-in-one ±2g triaxial accelerograph that is easily installed using a single anchor point. Once powered up it records GPS-synchronised continuous data in a ring buffer for a year or more, ensuring earthquakes are never missed. This is the future of structural monitoring…

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