We are a small team from Antalya, Turkey, building the world's densest earthquake early warning sensor network through community participation and open-source technology.
On February 6, 2023, two devastating earthquakes struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, claiming over 50,000 lives. In many affected areas, people had no warning at all. The official earthquake monitoring infrastructure, while scientifically precise, was too sparse to provide the seconds of advance notice that can mean the difference between life and death.
That tragedy became our founding motivation. We asked a simple question: What if thousands of low-cost sensors could fill the gaps that a handful of expensive seismometers cannot?
GeoShake was born from this idea. Instead of relying on a few high-precision instruments, we build a dense network of affordable ESP32-based sensors. Each device costs a fraction of traditional seismic equipment, yet when hundreds of them detect a P-wave simultaneously, the network can identify an earthquake's origin faster than any single station ever could.
Founded in 2025 under Appflows Technology Inc., GeoShake is headquartered at Akdeniz University's Ulugbey R&D Center in Antalya. Our sensor network has grown to 500+ active stations across Turkey, and every line of code, every circuit schematic, and every algorithm is open source.
GeoShake operates from within Akdeniz University's Ulugbey Research & Development Center. This partnership gives us direct access to seismological expertise, laboratory facilities, and a rigorous academic environment that keeps our algorithms grounded in real science.
Our collaboration with the university's Geophysics Department focuses on validating our STA/LTA detection algorithms, improving false alarm reduction models, and comparing our community sensor data against professional seismic stations.
Institution
Akdeniz University
Ulugbey R&D Center, Antalya
Research Focus
A small, focused team combining hardware engineering, software development, and seismic data science.
Founder & Lead Researcher
Background in embedded systems and IoT. Focused on seismic sensor algorithms and real-time data processing. Leading the development of the GeoShake T1 hardware and the multi-sensor correlation algorithm that powers the network's earthquake detection.
Software Engineer
Full-stack development with React Native, Node.js, and Supabase. Responsible for the GeoShake mobile app and real-time monitoring dashboard. Previously worked on large-scale IoT platforms handling millions of device messages per day.
Hardware Engineer
ESP32 and MEMS sensor integration specialist. Designs the GeoShake T1 PCB layout and sensor array architecture. Electronic engineering graduate from Akdeniz University with hands-on experience in low-power embedded systems and high-frequency data acquisition.
Data Scientist
Seismic data analysis and machine learning. Develops the STA/LTA detection algorithms and false alarm reduction models that keep the network reliable. Research collaboration with Akdeniz University's Geophysics Department on ground-truth validation of community sensor data.
GeoShake is released under the MIT License. Our firmware, mobile app, backend services, hardware schematics, and detection algorithms are all publicly available. We believe that earthquake early warning is too important to be locked behind proprietary walls. Anyone can audit, improve, or fork the project.
Every new sensor makes the network stronger. Register your station and help build a denser, faster earthquake early warning system for everyone.