IRIS Earthquake Channel
One of the display options offered by IRIS is the IRIS Earthquake Channel. Eathquake Channel is a live non-interactive, large screen map display that shows recent earthquakes. The display runs on Mac or Windows PC. The maps can be customized for your location (World map, US map, regional map). The Earthquke Channel requires an Internet connection to pull in the live data. The conection uses very little bandwidth and only pulls in new data during updates which occur once every 15 minutes.
The photo to the right shows the IRIS Earthquake Channel installed in the earthquake exhibt at the New Madrid Historical Museum, New Madrid. Missouri. The IRIS Earthquake Channel is on the upper widescreen display. The lower display is running the IRIS Active Earth Monitor New Madrid Seismic Zone content.
IRIS Public Displays
IRIS partners with the USGS Albuquerque Seismic Lab and major museums throughout the US to develop public displays of real-time seismic data. We work with each museum to choose the appropriate display elements as they design their exhibit.
New Mexico Mueum of Natural History American Museum of Natural History
Albuquerque, NM New York City, New York
| Museum with a Permanent Display | Year Installed | Annual Attendance |
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American Museum of Natural History New York, NY |
2000 2004 |
4,000,000 |
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, PA |
2000 | 3,000,000 |
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New Mexico Museum of Natural History Albuquerque, NM |
1999 | 300,000 |
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Smithsonian Institute Natural History Museum Washington, DC |
2003 | 8,000,000 |
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Elements of the Display
Create Your Own Earthquake
A visitor jumps on the ground in front of the display and sees an earthquake recorded on a rotating drum.
Earthquake Monitor
A large monitor displays the locations of recent earthquakes in real-time. To see the Seismic Monitor on the web, click here. Another monitor lists the times, magnitudes and geographic locations of the recent earthquakes. The Seismic Monitor leads visitors to realize that earthquakes are happening around the world everyday.
Drum Recorder
Signals recorded in three different places in the world are broadcast in real-time to the museum and recorded on the drum. The drum recorder was included in existing permanent displays, but IRIS no longer offers the drum recorder.
Evaluation of the Permanent Displays
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Are you interested in incorporating real-time seismic data into your museum display? Contact: Patrick McQuillan - mcquillan AT iris.edu |
