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Project Highlight CONDOR Seismic Monitoring System at the Wheatstone LGN Plant Owned by Chevron and designed by Bechtel, the Wheatstone LNG Project is part of Western Australia’s first natural gas hub and set to become one of the largest resource projectsproviding greater security of supply in the Asia-Pacific region. A Kinemetrics CONDOR System was installed to help ensure safe operations, assess plant condition after an earthquake, and to determine Operating Basis Earthq...uake (OBE) limits exceedance to initiate emergency response procedures for a plant’s safe shutdown. The CONDOR System solution monitors free-field ground motion as well as the foundation and roof tank response due to earthquakes and determines, in real-time, whether this has exceeded the plant’s Operating Basis Earthquake (OBE) design requirements to continue operations or initiate safe plant’s shutdown procedures. #earthquakeengineering #lng #energy #condor #kinemetrics https://kinemetrics.com//seismic-monitoring-system-austra/

The Webinar Schedule for November Has Arrived! November brings us a number of special guest speakers, as well as a presentation on one of our most-requested topics in the Kinemetrics Information Series! Our November line-up of speakers includes:... * Dr. Ertugrul Taciroglu from UCLA speaking on the impact of Big Data on earthquake engineering * Dr. Edelvays Spassov from Kinemetrics introducing the Qantix Q8 data acquisition system * Dr. Nikolaos Theodoulidis from ITSAK-EPPO & Dr. Fabrice Hollender from CEA / France presenting the ARGONET seismic array Don't miss the opportunity to interact with these amazing speakers! Check out the full schedule: https://kinemetrics.com/taxonomy_webinars/upcoming/

Today in Earthquake History On October 28, 1891, at about 6am, the Great Nobi Earthquake struck Mino-Owari, Japan. It caused over 7,000 deaths, and extensive damage over a 4200 square mile area. The quake was felt from Tokyo to Osaka, and destroyed 130,000 houses. Estimated at ~M8, this earthquake may be the largest "on land" earthquake in the modern history of Japan. The USGS has publicly-accessible additional information this and other historic earthquakes.... #historicearthquakes #usgs #earthquakes #kinemetrics https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/index.php

Product Spotlight: The Antelope Environmental Monitoring Platform Antelope Environmental Monitoring Software is a commercial-off-the-shelf data acquisition, analysis, and management software designed to provide a comprehensive set of environmental monitoring data and processed information in real-time. With growing data volumes and aggressive service level expectations, Antelope maximizes the potential of your IT organization while delivering real-time enterprise computing. #...earthquakeengineering #environmentalmonitoring #earthquakes #seismicengineering #kinemetrics https://kinemetrics.com/post_products/antelope/

Only Two Days Left To Register! Have you ever wondered how we deliver world-class seismic systems worldwide? Join us for Webinar Wednesdays to find out!!! Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00am (Pacific) we take a look at how the Open Systems and Services division of Kinemetrics operates!... In this session, Dr. Mathias Franke will discuss the history, capabilities, and approach of this service-driven organization. He will provide a real-world a synopsis of OSS, focusing on past and current projects. This informative webinar + Q&A will provide a detailed understanding of how OSS develops solutions, manages projects, and continually delivers value to clients. We look forward to seeing you there! #earthquakeengineering #webinar #seismic #earthqaukes #disasterpreparedness #kinemetrics REGISTER NOW https://us02web.zoom.us//7316009/WN_pOrO7dVrRkOpfwpdfl4bcg

The Kinemetrics Story In 1972, Kinemetrics designed the first centralized Time Series Recording System for Nuclear Power Plants, the SMA-3. This system would be installed in nearly 100 nuclear power stations worldwide. #innovation #earthquakeengineering #kinemetrics #npp... https://kinemetrics.com/about-us/our-history/

Have you ever wondered how we deliver world-class seismic systems worldwide? Join us for Webinar Wednesdays to find out!!! Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00am (Pacific) we take a look at how the Open Systems and Services division of Kinemetrics operates! In this session, Dr. Mathias Franke will discuss the history, capabilities, and approach of this service-driven organization. He will provide a real-world a synopsis of OSS, focusing on past and current projects.... This informative webinar + Q&A will provide a detailed understanding of how OSS develops solutions, manages projects, and continually delivers value to clients. We look forward to seeing you there! #earthquakeengineering #earthquakes #seismic #kinemetrics REGISTER NOW https://us02web.zoom.us//7316009/WN_pOrO7dVrRkOpfwpdfl4bcg

Earthquake Facts: How can scientists tell where the earthquake happened? P waves are faster than S waves, which is what allows us to tell where an earthquake was. By looking at the amount of time between the P and S wave at a given location, scientists can tell how far away the earthquake was from that location. However, they can’t tell in which direction from the location the earthquake was. Scientists then use triangulation to determine exactly where the earthquake was. By ...drawing a circle on a map around three different seismographs where the radius of each is the distance from that station to the earthquake, the intersection of those three circles is the epicenter. #earthquakes #earthquakefacts #kinemetrics #usgs #science

Today in Earthquake History On October 20, 1986, an M7.7 earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands Region, generating a tsunami felt as far away as Hawaii. The USGS has publicly-accessible data on this historic earthquake.... https://earthquake.usgs.gov//eventpage/usp0002z3j/executive

Product Spotlight: Rockhound Software Platform for Rock+, Rock, Altus and Q330 Family of Products Don’t miss the free webinar on Rockhound this Wednesday morning at 10am (Pacific)! Rockhound, originally introduced as SMARTS, is a software platform designed to implement real time data acquisition solutions from streams of one or more digitizers and perform vital functions on the data that are critical to the end user. The platform is modular as a building block structure where... each module within specific implementation may be connected in many useful and different ways. Developed in Java, the Rockhound software platform can be run on a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft’s Windows, multiple Mac OS, and Linux. Register for the Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us//6916009/WN_1-I-mGyJSPafEWTx5-OmwA

Join us for Webinar Wednesdays!!! Wednesday, October 21 at 10:00am (Pacific) we take a 30,000 foot view of the Rockhound platform! Rockhound is a software platform designed to implement real time data acquisition from digitizers and perform vital functions based upon that data to meet the needs of the end user.... In this session, Dennis Pumphrey will walk us through the configurable capabilities of this modular platform such as: * Continuous recording * Triggered event recording * Telemetry reformatting and relaying * Interfaces to post processing This informative webinar + Q&A will help operators, researchers, and engineers understand the multitude of implementations possible with the Rockhound platform. We look forward to seeing you there! REGISTER NOW https://us02web.zoom.us//6916009/WN_1-I-mGyJSPafEWTx5-OmwA

Are you ready for the Great Shakeout? At Kinemetrics, we will be running an earthquake simulation using our OasisPlus platform to randomize the building alerts. Employees will be able to check-in, submit injury and hazard reports, and receive instructions via the OasisPlus mobile app. Our response team will also use the mobile app to perform safety checks. Let us know how your drills go today!... https://www.shakeout.org/california/

Earthquake Facts: Why does the earth shake when there is an earthquake? While the edges of faults are stuck together, and the rest of the block is moving, the energy that would normally cause the blocks to slide past one another is being stored up. When the force of the moving blocks finally overcomes the friction of the jagged edges of the fault and it unsticks, all that stored up energy is released. The energy radiates outward from the fault in all directions in the form of seismic waves like ripples on a pond. The seismic waves shake the earth as they move through it, and when the waves reach the earth’s surface, they shake the ground and anything on it, like our houses and us!