Free utility · Earthquake monitoring

Shake.

Make ground motion visible.

Explore live seismic signals from our 11 Mosswood station, or run the software with a Raspberry Shake on your own network.

Watch our station

Open the live observatory to explore seismograms, spectrograms and other views of the signals around 11 Mosswood. No installation needed.

View live observatory

Run your own

Free software for your own Raspberry Shake sensor. The setup wizard helps configure your station and opens an observatory on your local network.

Download for Windows

v0.2.0 · ZIP, 3.2 MB · Python 3.11+ required

Understand what you’re seeing

Seismic Observatory Field Manual

Start with plain-English explanations of the displays, then explore the science and the mathematics behind them. Ten chapters, with three layers of detail in each.

Download field manual (PDF) Read online

PDF · 15 KB · Free to read and download

Getting started

To watch our station, just open the live observatory. To run your own:

Have Python 3.11 or newer and a compatible Raspberry Shake sensor available on your local network.
Download and extract the ZIP, then run install.bat on Windows.
Follow the setup wizard to select your sensor and station settings. The installer downloads the required Python packages.

The download contains installer scripts and source code. Linux and macOS setup instructions are also available in the repository.

Setup instructions ↗Source code ↗Release notes ↗

An experimental monitoring and research tool. Detection and estimates from a single station are not official earthquake predictions or alerts.