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Homemade Earthquake Alarm Project

The document discusses earthquakes, explaining their occurrence due to the movement of tectonic plates and the resulting release of strain energy. It details a homemade earthquake alarm that uses a copper wire and metal connector to alert users when an earthquake occurs. Additionally, it describes seismometers and seismographs, which record ground motion during earthquakes, highlighting the transition from manual to digital recording methods.

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Homemade Earthquake Alarm Project

The document discusses earthquakes, explaining their occurrence due to the movement of tectonic plates and the resulting release of strain energy. It details a homemade earthquake alarm that uses a copper wire and metal connector to alert users when an earthquake occurs. Additionally, it describes seismometers and seismographs, which record ground motion during earthquakes, highlighting the transition from manual to digital recording methods.

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Science Project

Earthquake alarm

Muhammad Mohid Maqbool

Grade 8 (Blue)

School ID: 30520

House Yellow
Earthquake
An earthquake is the sudden release of strain
energy in the Earth's crust, resulting in waves of
shaking that radiate outwards from the
earthquake source. When stresses in the crust
exceed the strength of the rock, it breaks along
lines of weakness, either a pre-existing or new
fault plane.

How does an earthquake


happen?

An earthquake occurs when the tectonic plates slide from


each other, pull away from each other or push against
each other.
this is an Earthquake from turkey in 2023

Homemade earthquake alarm


My earthquake alarm alerts you when there is an
earthquake as it beeps and the LED light flashes.
In my earthquake detector there is a copper wire
hanging from the top of the box, a metal connecter
is inserted into the box, when an earthquake hits,
the wire shakes and when it touches the metal
connecter, it triggers the buzzer and the light to
alert you that there is an earthquake.
The basic principle of working and warning earthquake
detector with a vibration sensor is when an earthquake
occurs or when the dynamo (earthquake simulator) is
started, the resulting vibrations cause movement of the
pendulum. This pendulum movement is what will trigger
the sound of the bell.

This is a homemade earthquake alarm/detector.

Seismometer
A seismometer is the internal part of the seismograph,
which may be a pendulum or a mass mounted on a
spring; however, it is often used synonymously with
"seismograph". Seismographs are instruments used to
record the motion of the ground during an earthquake.

A seismograph is securely mounted onto the surface of


the earth so that when the earth shakes, the entire unit
shakes with it EXCEPT for the mass on the spring, which
has inertia and remains in the same place. As the
seismograph shakes under the mass, the recording
device on the mass records the relative motion between
itself and the rest of the instrument, thus recording the
ground motion. These mechanisms are no longer manual,
but instead work by measuring electronic changes
produced by the motion of the ground with respect to
mass.
A seismogram is the recording of the ground shaking at
the specific location of the instrument. On a seismogram,
the HORIZONTAL axis = time (measured in seconds) and
the VERTICAL axis= ground displacement (usually
measured in millimeters). When there is NO
EARTHQUAKE reading, there is just a straight line except
for small wiggles caused by local disturbance or "noise"
and the time markers. Seismograms are digital now -
there are no more paper recordings.

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