The Red Atrapa Sismos (Quake-Catcher Network in Mexico): Assessing Performance during Large and Damaging Earthquakes

Luis A. Dominguez Ramirez, Battalgazi Yildirim, Allen L. Husker, Elizabeth S. Cochran, Carl Christensen, Victor M. Cruz-Atienza, & Jesse F. Lawrence

Published May 4, 2015, SCEC Contribution #11768

The Quake-Catcher Network (QCN) is an expanding seismic array made possible by thousands of participants who volun- teered time and resources from their computers to record seismic data using low-cost accelerometers (http://qcn.stanford.edu/; last accessed December 2014). Sensors based on Micro-Electro- mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology have rapidly improved over the last few years due to the demand of the private sector (e.g., automobiles, cell phones, and laptops). For strong-motion applications, low-cost MEMS accelerometers have promising fea- tures due to an increasing resolution and near-linear phase and amplitude response (Cochran, Lawrence, Christensen, and Jakka, 2009; Clayton et al., 2011; Evans et al., 2014).

Citation
Dominguez Ramirez, L. A., Yildirim, B., Husker, A. L., Cochran, E. S., Christensen, C., Cruz-Atienza, V. M., & Lawrence, J. F. (2015). The Red Atrapa Sismos (Quake-Catcher Network in Mexico): Assessing Performance during Large and Damaging Earthquakes. Seismological Research Letters, 86(3), 848-855. doi: 10.1785/0220140171.