UM seismograph offers local view of Haitian Earthquake - School of Earth and Climate Sciences

At 5:44pm on January 12, the University of Maine’s new seismometer began to pick up shaking from a distant earthquake event. For the next hour the incoming signal saturated the display as seismic waves passed by the station. Our seismograph had detected the magnitude 7.0 Haitian earthquake which is responsible for tremendous loss of human read more