GeoShake: Seismic Monitor

Turn everyday homes and buildings into a distributed seismic monitoring network with GeoShake.

What GeoShake does
- Community-powered detection: Connect affordable IoT sensor nodes across neighborhoods to form a dense, resilient seismic network.
- Early detection & local alerts: Aggregate real-time ground motion to detect events faster and raise localized alerts that help communities respond sooner.
- Real-time insights: Live dashboards, event timelines, and sensor health metrics let you monitor ground motion across your area.
- Affordable & accessible: Built for low-cost sensors and easy deployment — no specialized scientific infrastructure required.
- Open & transparent: GeoShake is open-source and designed for reproducible, verifiable seismic data and collaborative research.
- Localized precision: Dense node placement improves location accuracy and helps detect smaller events that sparse networks miss.

Who should use GeoShake
- Community groups, schools, and neighborhoods wanting better earthquake awareness
- Citizen scientists and researchers seeking dense, open seismic datasets
- IoT enthusiasts and makers deploying low-cost nodes
- Local authorities exploring low-cost, community-driven situational awareness

Privacy & data
GeoShake emphasizes transparent, privacy-respecting data sharing. Sensor owners control what data they share; aggregated event notifications and local analytics prioritize community safety over personal data collection.

Get involved
Install affordable sensor nodes, join a local network, view real-time events, and contribute code or improvements. GeoShake supports collaborative research and open data practices perfect for communities and researchers working together to improve earthquake awareness.

Get GeoShake to deploy, monitor, and contribute to a community seismic network that makes earthquake detection more local, timely, and transparent.