Elizabeth S. Cochran
Angela Chung
Carl M. Christensen
Jesse F. Lawrence
Battalgazi Yildirim
2015
<p><span>Over the past two decades, there have been several initiatives to create volunteer‐based seismic networks. The Personal Seismic Network, proposed around 1990, used a short‐period seismograph to record earthquake waveforms using existing phone lines (</span><a id="xref-ref-13-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-13">Cranswick and Banfill, 1990</a><span>; </span><a id="xref-ref-14-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-14">Cranswick<i>et al.</i>, 1993</a><span>). NetQuakes (</span><a id="xref-ref-26-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-26">Luetgert <i>et al.</i>, 2010</a><span>) deploys triaxial Micro‐Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors in private homes, businesses, and public buildings where there is an Internet connection. Other seismic networks using a dense array of low‐cost MEMS sensors are the Community Seismic Network (</span><a id="xref-ref-9-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-9">Clayton <i>et al.</i>, 2012</a><span>; </span><a id="xref-ref-22-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-22">Kohler <i>et al.</i>, 2013</a><span>) and the Home Seismometer Network (</span><a id="xref-ref-21-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-21">Horiuchi <i>et al.</i>, 2009</a><span>). One main advantage of combining low‐cost MEMS sensors and existing Internet connection in public and private buildings over the traditional networks is the reduction in installation and maintenance costs (</span><a id="xref-ref-23-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-23">Koide <i>et al.</i>, 2006</a><span>). In doing so, it is possible to create a dense seismic network for a fraction of the cost of traditional seismic networks (</span><a id="xref-ref-16-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-16">D’Alessandro and D’Anna, 2013</a><span>; </span><a id="xref-ref-15-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-15">D’Alessandro, 2014</a><span>; </span><a id="xref-ref-17-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/86/3/856.full#ref-17">D’Alessandro <i>et al.</i>, 2014</a><span>).</span></p>
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Seismological Society of America
On the reliability of Quake-Catcher Network earthquake detections
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