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The current situation is that my hardware is in need for upgrade and replacement. The fact is that I can’t afford this at the moment on my own. That is why I am asking for donations at the moment so I can upgrade my computer to more modern one and upgrade my earthquake monitoring network to a modern style network.
Main earthquake computer
Current main earthquake computer is no longer functioning due to failure on the motherboard. I need to get a new one and I’ve decided that it is best to just buy a new computer with everything + a new monitor. The computer I want to get costs 114.950 ISK (~884,98€), with some minor modification to it that are going to cost extra. The monitor I want to buy costs 24.950 ISK (~192,09€). This is going to be a Windows 10 Pro computer. I do plan on setting up a Linux computer in the future for earthquake monitoring since I am switching to Raspberry shake seismometers (some months after I finish moving to Spain) and most of the software for those seismometers run on Linux rather than Windows.
Earthquake monitoring network
Due to how old the hardware I am using in my earthquake monitoring network. It has now stopped functioning for most part. Heklubyggð is down due to network problems and is going to quit sometimes in next few months (no date has been set). I don’t know if the network problems are going to be resolved before I have to take Heklubyggð permanently offline. I am currently trying to solve issues with the geophone at Böðvarshólar. That has not been going as well as I hoped. Something happened yesterday and the PC seems to have stopped working as it was supposed to do. I am not sure what the problem is.
Upgrade to Raspberry shake
The hardware that I am now using for my earthquake recording has reached its End Of Life [EOL] some time ago. That is the reason I need to move to Raspberry shake sensor(s). I want to install 3 sensor in Iceland. For the moment however I just want to upgrade the station at Böðvarshólar so I can have some functional monitoring of earthquake activity.
The station I need to buy is this one here along with extra hardware to use with it.
Turnkey IoT All Weather Home Earthquake Monitor | RS 3D – price is 1259,99 USD (1.087,34€)
GPS Antenna – 179USD (154,59€)
External USB connection for All Weather enclosure – 81,99 – 169,99 USD.
Thanks for the support. 🙂
Really enjoyed the posts thanks Jon and good luck getting the new hardware.
Do you know if you can get any of the surface inflation data (tiltmeter or GPS) from Öræfajökull online?
I would like to see how the published suspected magma volumes intruded match the surface movements over the last couple of years.
Many thanks
John
Thanks for the support. 🙂
You can find the GPS data for Öræfajökull volcano here.
http://brunnur.vedur.is/gps/oraefajokull.html
I am trying now to get some temporary hardware up and running for Böðvarshólar geophone station (I am going to try and fix that temporary setup I had already setup) and my main earthquake computer by using older computer that I can get for free from my brother. It is only temporary hardware until I can get new one.
Great, to read that you might have a temporary solution whilst you are gathering funds together.
It is clear that Hekla geophone station is ending operations this year or next year (due to private reasons). It has been running for 10 years already and that’s a good run time for a geophone station.