Raspberry Shake
A Raspberry Shake is a small, self contained seismograph built around a Raspberry Pi and a sensitive geophone (some models also use accelerometers as well). It continuously measures ground motion, processes the signal in real time, and sends the data to your local network and/or the Raspberry Shake community servers. Despite its size, and relatively cheap cost, it’s accurate enough to detect local quakes, distant large earthquakes, and even smaller vibrations in the environment.
Note: Each Raspberry Shake has a unique station name to identify it on the Raspberry Shake network. You can use this name to view a Shake’s output on the various Raspberry Shake apps (ShakeNet, Data View, etc.). However, even though it’s obfuscated by several hundred meters, the location of each Shake is shown on these apps. For that reason, I do not share my station name.
rsudp | Live Stream
I use rsudp to locally record and process data from the Shake, and I maintain a YouTube livestream that shows the near real-time rsudp output and the latest alert. Alerts in the stream may come from local events or from USGS-corroborated ones. The stream also includes the (not real-time) vault camera feed and other vault information.
Other monitoring
For a continuously updated list of USGS corroborated events, click here.
Events of note recorded by my Raspberry Shake
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2026
01/15/2026 Black Hawk Helicopter(s) Flyover:
This was a Black Hawk (or four) helicopter like flying quite low over the Shake (I believe it was the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment doing training exercises, but it could have also been the Oregon Army National Guard who also operates Black Hawks.)
01/16/2026 M 6.0 Bandon, Oregon:
This was an interesting event.
My Shake recorded it beautifully, but the alerting system I have set up with rsudp was not triggered by the 6.0’s P-wave. Instead, the alerting system was triggered at 03:22:54 (UTC) by what I’m guessing was a foreshock, and it stayed in an alarm state until the main event’s P-wave arrived. Because the STA/LTA value in rsudp did not fall back below the alert reset threshold (0.2) during the foreshock, the alert did not reset, and the main event was effectively “missed” by the alerting system.
The quake’s P-wave arrived at 03:26:48 (UTC) and was recorded very well by my Shake. Looking back at the live stream, it appears the quake produced about 16 minutes of detectable activity before dissipating.
Foreshock detection by rsudp:
Main quake:
Recording from the livestream of the foreshock and main event (note: turn volume up):
2025
06/04/2025 M 2.0 This was very close to the location of the Raspberry Shake and may have not been an earthquake but a mine/well collapsing:
07/16/2025 M 7.3 - Sand Point, Alaska Earthquake:
2024
Our dog Betty running around the vault:
