The pulse of the planet. Unlocking the secret to earthquakes
So, moving on to earthquakes, this maps shows Australia’s past earthquake activity. As you can see in Queensland there is very little seismic activity compared to areas like and Victoria New South Wales. But in general we have very little compared to other countries, like Japan or New Zealand as these sit on the ring of fire. How do we know where earthquakes ocur apart from seeing the damage like in this photo? In case you did not notice the rails were originaly straight. The simple answer to that is seismic stations. In this photo you can see all the seismic stations in Australia. As you can see, they all have two or three letter acronyms. Now let's take a peek inside of a seismic station to see what it looks like. In the image below you can see it is nothing too fancy, just a sensor, a solar panel for power and the data recording and transmiting equipment. In the next post I will show you how to build a D.I.Y one at home for only 300 billion dollars ... just joking only twenty f...