Meeting of the Environmental Club

29.5.2024

The Department of Landscape Gardening and Ecology held a meeting of the Environmental Club on the topic “Global Monitoring Network for Seismic Activity – Raspberry Shake”.

In 2024, the ER INAS received a seismograph, which was connected to the global monitoring network for seismic activity “Raspberry Shake”.

The participants of the meeting learned about the capabilities of the Rasberry Shake portable seismograph, which is installed at the Department of Landscape Gardening and Ecology in the city of Myrhorod. Students and teachers now have the opportunity to study the seismicity of selected regions, as well as other effects, such as explosions, vibrations from the movement of cars, construction of various objects, etc. The seismograph is connected to a worldwide network of such seismographs, which allows you to observe (collect data, conduct research) and other cities and countries. The data obtained with its help can be observed online in the global monitoring network at the link: https://dataview.raspberryshake.org.

All this became possible thanks to the cooperation of the ER INAS with the NGO “National Ecological Center of Ukraine” and Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (German Center for Georesearch), which gave us the device and Hanna Slobodyanyuk-Montavon and Tetiana Amashukeli directly.

Inna TIMCHENKO, associate professor of the Department of Landscape Gardening and Ecology, explained how to work with global network data. The meeting participants learned the differences between various devices for measuring seismicity, such as seismometers, seismographs, seismometers, and accelerometers; saw what the world’s first seismograph looked like and a modern seismograph installed on the planet Mars in 2018; how the seismograph is arranged “inside” and according to what principle it works; how to see data and noise online on the WAN; how extensive is the worldwide network of seismographs.

We are sincerely grateful to our partners, the NGO “National Ecological Center of Ukraine”, as well as Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (German Center for Geoscientific Research) for cooperation and new research opportunities!

According to the Department of Landscape Gardening and Ecology