Arduino Based Earthquake Prediction device

Arduino based Earthquake Prediction device via Magnetic field monitoring. Based on the fact that there are strange magnetic fields around fault lines and animals sense the changes in those fields to warn them of coming earthquakes.

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Science & Technology

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• Arduino
• Earthquake
• Prediction
• Device
• Magnetic
• Fields
• howto
• technology
• instruction

[nykholas]

Bob, first of all, congrats for the hard work and the idea. I would like to ask you about the predictions. Have been able to foreseen any kind of earthquakes?

[bobdavis321]

@nykholas Not really but they do not happen around here, I have seen a lot of changes in the magnetic fields.

[Blacklab412294]

Are you going to have problems with your sensor being affected by manmade fields? It’s not like you’re going to be able to set up this experiment right next to an electric transformer or anywhere near your home’s internal wiring (as we have seen how home wiring can effect hall sensors on the many TV Ghost’s hunters programs). How sensitive does your sensor have to be?

[bobdavis321]

@Blacklab412294 - Very sensitive, in the nano tesla (NT) range. If you go to electric quakes dot org they have one set up in Fresno CA and it reads in 1 Nt/div and 5 NT/div. If you study the magnetic readings they get shakier almost every day, something it going to break loose soon! I am not sure I have enough sensitivity even with the 100 x amplifiers.

[Serpico261]

hey bob, have you studied engineering? i remember that i read that somewhere on your page...i dont know

[bobdavis321]

@Serpico261 - My education includes 2 years of Electronics, 2 years of computers, and 3 years of Bible School.

[brastaviceanu]

If we define the patterns corelating planetary alignements or configurations with seismic, volcanic, electro-magnetic, tectonic, oceanic, athmospheric, etc activity on/in Earth and cathegorise them all we can take it to the ''higher level''. I'm not waiting for the official corpos to deliver, I think Open Source can do much better, cheaper and faster. We have the etools to collaborate/coordinate worldwide and free, we got cheap hardware, and we can get custom open software.

Would you help a lil?

[brastaviceanu]

Damned 500 characters... If we can make something very cheap and effective through open science and engineering and have many passionate scientists join the project and plant a few sensors say 100kms apart, all around the globe, we could have a network in no time. Than if we consider all the weather live data and everything we monitor like suns' activity etc, we can get the hole picture clearly and make better predictions. Many fields will benefit, like agriculture etc, and there will be funds..

[brastaviceanu]

Hi Bob, nice work! I'm in a team working on optical-fiber-based sensors that can achieve great accuracy and can sort out signals. I had this idea of a Network of sensors monitoring electro-magnetic fields and fluctuations inside the planet, and out, how magnetic field interactions in and out the solar system affect or influence variations on Earth. Gravitational field interactions would also be monitorable with similar sensors and if we get all this data together we could create a 3d live model.

[Blacklab412294]

Also, if you did decide to data log more then let say 4- X,Y,Z points using non-magnetic scaffolding (like PVC pipe), would you have to go over to a faster type of processor then the Arduino? Or maybe something that does parallel processing such as the Propeller?

[Blacklab412294]

I am wondering if you need to take your idea one more step further: Wouldn’t be better if you set up your magnetic monitoring so you have more than just one set of X,Y,Z magnetic coordinates more than 3 feet apart giving you a 3D picture? And would that give you an advantage to distinguish normal everyday fields from something like an earth quake?

[mrnewagemotor]

All 3 axis - like a GPS. Electromagnetic field sensor ?

Look into getting a small cheaper Gaus meter - not sure of the spelling - sounds like GOWZE - magnetic field meters.

Reverse engineer it to fit your needs.

Oh - and thank you in advance - for saving not only my life - but the millions of other peoples lives that you will spare with your device ! THANK YOU !