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| rick++... |
 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:06 am |
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I was reading in the American Geophysical Union weekly
newspaper that one seismology center graphs the IP locations
of web-page requests when a surge in requests is observed.
This often shows the location of a quake that just occurred
because people click the seismology center web site to
learn about a quake thay just felt. |
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| Weatherlawyer... |
| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:15 am |
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On Jun 26, 5:06 pm, "rick++" <rick... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
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A seismology centre plots the IP locations
of web-page requests when a surge in requests is observed.
This often shows the location of a quake that just occurred
because people click the seismology center web site to
learn about a quake they just felt.
Nice one. |
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| rick++... |
| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:38 am |
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Sort of like the way to find wildlife in National Parks
is to look for traffic jams. |
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| Weatherlawyer... |
| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:29 am |
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On Jun 26, 6:38 pm, "rick++" <rick... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Sort of like the way to find wildlife in National Parks
is to look for traffic jams.
Or finding women with green hair by asking lost babies what their
parents look like. |
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| Timberwoof... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:55 am |
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In article
<cd35b556-4193-4bf1-a61a-37eb4be83838 at (no spam) 27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
"rick++" <rick303 at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
Quote: I was reading in the American Geophysical Union weekly
newspaper that one seismology center graphs the IP locations
of web-page requests when a surge in requests is observed.
This often shows the location of a quake that just occurred
because people click the seismology center web site to
learn about a quake thay just felt.
An earlier version of this was discussed on Slashdot several years ago.
The guy who set up the USGS web site had to make it robust enough to
withstand the deluge of hits that happened every time there was an
earthquake. He was eventually able to predict the size of an earthquake
by the size of the spike.
Of course, when Shalshdot picked up the article, his web site suffered a
Slashdot Effect, and he thought, "Holy shit! The Big One has happened!"
Interestingly, his web site survived the Slashdot Effect, which looks
just like the spike after an earthquake. ...which news caused another
Slashdot Effect when it was posted.
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Timberwoof <me at timberwoof dot com> http://www.timberwoof.com
"When you post sewage, don't blame others for
emptying chamber pots in your direction." ‹Chris L. |
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| Jo Schaper... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:04 am |
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rick++ wrote:
Quote: I was reading in the American Geophysical Union weekly
newspaper that one seismology center graphs the IP locations
of web-page requests when a surge in requests is observed.
This often shows the location of a quake that just occurred
because people click the seismology center web site to
learn about a quake thay just felt.
Cool. About four days after the April 18 IL-IN eq I surfed over to the
USGS page for that quake, and found it had 32,000 hits.
I didn't know 32,000 Internet literate people would be interested in a
relatively minor hit on an obscure fault zone. Sounds like there are
more people interested in midwest quakes than we might think. |
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