This meant that DIYers now had complete access to the board and would be able to access the onboard Raspberry BCM2835 chip (a similar chip to the BCM21553) with an open source driver – as long as someone ported it over from the BCM21553.Īnyhoo, a programmer named Simon Hall took up the challenge and for his efforts was able to win the $10,000 bounty and port Quake III over to the Raspberry Pi, thereby allowing you to waste some nasty aliens on a machine approximately the size of an Atari 2600 joystick. In summary Earthquake Monitor is a very nice and free earthquake app.A month ago, the folks at Raspberry Pi announced that they now had access, thanks to Broadcomm, to an open driver for the BCM21553 cellphone processor chip. So I can easily sort the list by distance so that I can see earthquakes that are close to me. Most apps I've seen display the earthquake occurence in GMT time.Īlso, earthquakes can be displayed as distance and bearing from my location. any quake greater than magnitude 5.Įarthquake time listings are automatically adjusted for my local time zone.

Other apps I've seen are more general, e.g. This is the only app I have seen that lets me quickly filter the earthquake list to precise magnitude level. There is a unique slider at the top of the list such that I can quickly filter the list to earthquakes of a certain magnitude or greater. The app also has a list capability showing all earthquakes occurrences in the last 24 hours. Also there is a tsunami alert capability such that if an earthquake is judged to be capable of creating a tsunami then I would get notified of those regardless of the range or magnitude setting. The notification came with a distinctive audio alert so as to easily discern that it was an earthquake notification. I got a notification in less than 30 minutes.

Initially I set it to all earthquakes of magnitude 1 or greater to verify that the notifications were working. With the Earthquake Monitor app I can set it to notify me if an earthquake occurred within a selectable distance around me as well as being able to set the magnitude level of the earthquake.

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