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Re: Latest Earthquakes

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Post by stevefolta »

milleramp wrote: post #50
DantesKite wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be interesting if you could accumulate seismic data with iPhones. Like if they're stationary for more than 10 minutes, share data with USGS.

If you are in California or Oregon there is the my shake app: https://myshake.berkeley.edu/ Collects data when charging. I have only had the early warning go off once, and before I could act the quake hit. It happed to be really close, so not much warning.

I got a second or two of warning once (also a fairly nearby quake). It's really odd to know in advance. Also used MyShake for a DYFI report just last night.

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

bshipp wrote: post #37
jldugger wrote: post #19

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So, time to add a lifestraw and shovel to the go bag.

A 'go bag' containing enough food to survive months would be rather unwieldy to carry around. Hopefully it survives the initial earthquake in an accessible location so permit bugging out. However, its not much use if the house has collapsed or you're stuck at work.

I have 3 months of MREs for a family of four that fit in two buckets. Easily left in the trunk of the car, but don't forget about water!

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Post by CodeArtisan »

belter wrote: post #9

This site ... integrated over Real time Solar Flares: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-fla... and random noise form Live Meteor: https://meteorscan.com/meteor-live.html runs my Random Number Generator....

There is also this one

The random numbers are generated in real-time in our lab by measuring the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum.

https://qrng.anu.edu.au/

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Post by h2odragon »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #28

Funny this gets posted today. This morning at 7:46 CST I experienced the closest/strongest earthquake yet, here in Kansas. It was a magnitude 4.3 approximately 20 miles away. Yes, I did file a DYFI report. :)

Saw that dot on the map and had to go look at it. Careful there, the Crab people may be coming up for the holiday season.

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Post by ncmncm »

belter wrote: post #9

This site ... integrated over Real time Solar Flares: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-fla... and random noise form Live Meteor: https://meteorscan.com/meteor-live.html runs my Random Number Generator....

The least-significant bits of pixels on any camera give you far more true entropy than you could ever use.

Re: Latest Earthquakes

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Post by ncmncm »

floxy wrote: post #36
version_five wrote: post #2

I liked the previous title about the Monster of the Cascadian Basin. I looked it up (found nothing) but came across this on the cascadian subduction zone: https://pnsn.org/outreach/earthquakesources/csz This is what's responsible for "megathrust" earthquakes on the west coast every 400-600 years. It seems we're early for one of those, so this is probably not that. I'd love to see more info on the significance, if any…

>"megathrust" earthquakes on the west coast every 400-600 years. ...there are the full-fault (M9) and partial-fault quakes (M8) , and the smaller ones happen more frequently: https://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/earthquakes/timeline >The Cascadia Subduction Zone has not produced an earthquake since 1700 and is building up pressure where the Juan de Fuca Plate is subsiding underneath the North American plate. Currentl…

Expectation is 2 years to restore full utility services throughout much of the region, after it happens. Months, in the highest priority spots.

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Post by dmurray »

junon wrote: post #29
belter wrote: post #15

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I fall back on real time neutrino event detection :-) https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/amon_hese_events.html

Data hasn't come in since 2019. Is that because none have been detected since? Or did the program halt?

Just a slow time for neutrinos. Any RNG can be expected to produce a sequence of zeros lasting two years, if you leave it long enough.

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Post by junon »

dmurray wrote: post #57
junon wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Data hasn't come in since 2019. Is that because none have been detected since? Or did the program halt?

Just a slow time for neutrinos. Any RNG can be expected to produce a sequence of zeros lasting two years, if you leave it long enough.

That's not a very useful RNG then.
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