About GeoShake
Building the future of earthquake early warning.
We are a small team building the world's densest earthquake early warning sensor network through community participation and open-source technology.
The company behind GeoShake
GeoShake is the first program of Sensory Earth Intelligence Systems.
Sensory Earth Intelligence Systems Ltd (SEIS) builds planet-scale sensing for natural hazards: dense, affordable, citizen-hosted sensor networks and the early-warning intelligence behind them. GeoShake is where that work began.
SEIS designs the instruments, runs the platform that turns their readings into warnings, and works with the institutions that can carry dense observation to every hazard and every region. GeoShake, its earthquake program, is a global network of more than 500 stations and 20,000 users, registered with the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (network code GW) and open to researchers and developers through an open API, FDSN web services and SeedLink, under CC BY 4.0.
Earthquakes are the first of six hazards on the same platform. Tsunami warnings are in development; volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides and wildfires follow in order, each as its own program and each on the same principle: dense, affordable, hosted by the people it protects.
SEIS is a company, but profit is not its purpose. Income from instruments, sponsorship and services for institutions keeps the network growing, maintained and independent. Firmware and software are published openly, instruments are priced so that households, schools and small communities can take part, and commercial work sustains the mission rather than replacing it.
Team
Who builds GeoShake.
Hüseyin Tamer
Founder of GeoShake
GeoShake is designed and built by Hüseyin Tamer, working out of the Akdeniz University Uluğbey R&D Center in Antalya, from the sensor hardware and firmware to the network that connects it all. Questions about the project land on his desk: say hello any time.
Open source
Open source from day one.
Our firmware is released under the GPL-3.0 licence and our enclosure designs under CC BY-SA 4.0. The firmware, the signal-processing reference it is bit-locked to, and the detection algorithms are all publicly available, so anyone can audit, improve or fork them. Our PCB design and cloud backend remain proprietary. We believe earthquake early warning is too important to be locked entirely behind proprietary walls.