Seismometer on your Mac laptop

[fractonimbus]

With the recent spate of cataclysmic earthquakes, I remembered that there is a small free application that runs on a Macbook/pro called "Seismac" that turns your Mac laptop into a seismometer. Very clever little app. http://www.suitable.com/tools/seismac.html

The reason it works is that Mac laptops have a motion sensor in them to trigger hard drive shutdown if dropped.

DN

[robynfali]

just reminded me of a VERY old program I had running when i had a 98 machine

Xearth

Basically you get an earth view on your desktop (you can program it to your local area), and it shows you the latest quakes around the planet (Japan still getting 5+ tremors now), cracking little tool, very much resource useage.

[Gina]

With the recent spate of cataclysmic earthquakes, I remembered that there is a small free application that runs on a Macbook/pro called "Seismac" that turns your Mac laptop into a seismometer. Very clever little app. http://www.suitable.com/tools/seismac.html

The reason it works is that Mac laptops have a motion sensor in them to trigger hard drive shutdown if dropped.

DN

Thanks for that I'll give it a whirl - I have a MacBook Pro.

[MattStedman]

There's also one for the iPhone called Quake Warn that pulls data off the net and maps it. It also has a "Shake Graph" that uses the iPhone motion sensors.