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As featured in Issue 49, Sept. 2016 MagPi And in Instructables - Earthquake Pi
There are a number of earthquake detector projects for the raspberry pi. These are good for anyone living in an area prone to earthquakes or for those that want to try to detect distant quakes themselves.
This project is not focused on detecting quakes, but uses USGS earthquake data to make an interesting little alerting system. Sure, you can always go to your PC and browse the USGS maps for the latest data, but you are a Maker and you like to make things because you can!
What does it do?
- It collects the USGS earthquake data from their website for the past 15 minutes.
- It displays location, magnitude and other data on a small LCD screen
- It rattles its box and flashes its lights to the magnitude of the quake (Optional)
- It plays earthquake sounds (Optional)
You set the minimum magnitude level you wish it to alarm on. But note, if you set to 1.0, it will probably go off every few hours! At 3.0, it will usually sound once every day or two.
Options include adding mechanical rattles, earthquake audio sounds and RGB LED bargraph lights. These are not required, but really make the earthquakePi “alive”.
See the PDF document at https://github.com/rgrokett/earthquakepi/blob/master/EarthquakePi.pdf for full details!