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Shake Per View  Participants in a project led by SDSCs Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit) demonstrate iSeismograph a new software tool for students to study store and share data using a widely available  ...
Shake Per View – Participants in a project led by SDSC’s Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit) demonstrate iSeismograph, a new software tool for students to study, store and share data using a widely available, cost-efficient and compact platform – a laptop computer. The video camera in all newer laptops shows a view of a shaking board (top) while the computer’s sudden motion sensor records real-time motions on a graph (bottom). Credit: San DiegoSupercomputerCenter, UC San Diego

What began as a way to prevent damage to the hard drive from a dropped laptop has led to an innovative project that lets seismology and engineering students or researchers study, store and share data to better understand the science of structural dynamics — be it a gentle tap or a full blown temblor.


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