How to analyze data with the RBOOM? (and is mine too noisy)

Hello and welcome. I’m actually not far from Niskayuna right now myself.

Believe it or not, this actually looks like a fairly clean Boom helicorder image. Some of the ones in our office in Panama are many times noisier than this. This can be due to wind, fan turbulence, doors opening and closing, and many other things. So no worries about it being too noisy.

If you would like to further analyze your Shake or Boom data, the easiest things to do are to download our ShakeNet app for iPhone or Android, or download the Swarm java application for your computer.

The apps are relatively straightforward, and Swarm is slightly less so, but I think just as worth it. Most versions of our operating system have a preconfigured version of Swarm available as a download from the web front end via the image button. However if you find that this link doesn’t work, we also have a couple of workarounds for that:

Let me know if you have any questions.