Seismic monitoring matters both for research and for populations living in areas of seismic hazard; however, it comes with a cost that is not fully affordable for developing countries. Compared to classical approaches with very quiet sites and high-quality instrumentation, it is therefore worth investigating low-cost seismic networks and how well they perform at detecting and characterizing seismicity. We analyze 1 year of seismic data from an educational seismology network in Nepal, create our own earthquake catalog, and compare it to the publicly available national observatory catalog. 

Our new publication on ‘Local earthquake monitoring with a low-cost seismic network: a case study in Nepal’ has been published in the Earth, Planets and Space journal, which  RaspberryShake also summarises.

Read article more at https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-024-02047-y