Earthquake Detective

We are engaging citizen in an experiment to test if human ears can replace the process of a professional seismologist in identifying dynamically triggered seismic events. Ordinarily, this process involves interactive data processing and visualization efforts on a volume of earthquake recordings (seismograms). Citizens are asked to listen to relevant sections of seismograms that are accelerated to audible frequencies and identify if signals is in one of four categories: earthquake, tremor, noise, or none of the above.