Peter Figen Online Upload & Sell: On
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For those of you here in lo-cal, there was a pretty good interview on the KPCC morning show with A Martinez interviewing a geophysicist about the quakes in Nepal. He talked a lot about these devices and how they worked and that they have about enough memory - about 16 gigs - built in that lets them record about two weeks worth of data, then starts over, writing over the beginning. They are trying to get to the devices in Nepal before they start that re-writing process. He said that the upper part of the unit housed the GPS and the sensor part was buried in the ground. The whole thing is connected to a solar panel a few yards away. While it is possible to pull data from these remotely, the units in Nepal are on such a slow connection that they can only pull the once every 15 seconds data rather than the five times a second data, and even then it is sometimes corrupted.
I did come across a map of where these are located in Southern California. There must be a few up above Pasadena.
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