A USGS technician installed the first seismograph in Tiburon to help monitor the earthquake activity in the North Bay.
A geophysicist from USGS hooked up a digital seismograph in a storage area of a Tiburon apartment building.
It’s an accelerometer which measures ground motion acceleration and it’s part of a network of 70- such machines in the Bay Area.
They’re installed in homes and in schools and they transmit the data it collects back to USGS through the internet.
A map in the video above shows all of the blue dots where the small gizmos are hooked up. They call it the NetQuakes network.
“It’s a way for us to get a denser network of seismographs in an urban and suburban environment where we can’t do our typical outside type stations.”
It was bolted to the ground in the building managed by a certified volunteer.
It will be the first NetQuake seismograph in the area.
The scientists installing it says the information gathered helps their ShakeMap tool.
“We get a better picture to generate a more accurate shake map and that’ll help emergency first responders they get out to the areas that hit the hardest as soon as possible.”