For decades, researchers had to rely on paper, ink, and couriers to study earthquakes.

The Raspberry Shake lets you participate in citizen science. It can even help geophysicists save lives using more data!

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Mentioned in this video:

  - Raspberry Shake: https://raspberryshake.org
  - SLU's Earthquake Center: https://www.eas.slu.edu/eqc/
  - SLU's real-time seismograms: https://www.eas.slu.edu/eqc/eqc_netrt/eqcnetrt.html

Contents:

00:00 - Meet Raspberry Shake
01:21 - An actual expert
01:57 - Smoke paper and sesimographs
03:16 - More data, less travel
05:08 - Seismic vaults
07:18 - A sensitive subject
09:26 - How's the Shake stack up?
11:06 - My First Earthquake
12:08 - Who cares about seismology?
15:11 - Citizen science on a global scale