What are the pros of forwarding my data to the Raspberry Shake Server?

[IndelibleOlives]

What are the pros of forwarding my data to the Raspberry Shake Server?

[TideMan]

Here are a couple that appeal to me:

1. You will be able to retrieve your data from FDSN should you lose your mseed files, so it’s a backup.
2. You will be contributing to the worldwide database, which allows people (including yourself) to calculate the location and magnitude of an event from a network of stations around the epicentre.

[IndelibleOlives]

Just curious. Are local magnitudes always calculated manually by hand? By reading a seismograph, determining the epicenter distance and etc. Or there are methods to this automatically?

[TideMan]

I’m a rank amateur in this, but I use the method described by Angel using Swarm here:

Locating earthquakes with Swarm

Hi Shakers, I made a video on how to locate earthquakes using Swarm. In many areas of the world now there are enough RShakes to be able to locate events. The density you need is 6 to 10 stations in a circle of 50 to 100 kilometers in diameter. I am planning to make a follow-up video to help dial in the magnitude and how to see how good your location is. Here is the link: Good hunting for little earthquakes. Saludos, Angel