The story so far... Here at Methodist College Geography and
Geology Department we were looking at ways in which we could
explore all aspects of earthquakes and their causes and impacts.
We were approached by the Geological Survey Northern Ireland
(GSNI) and the British Geological Survey (BGS) and were asked if
we would take part in UK Seismology Project. This allows
students to investigate how seismology data is recorded and used
around the world. This project is running throughout about 400
schools in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It aims to encourage
cross-curricular links between Earth Sciences, Physics, Maths,
IT and Technology. We of course jumped at the chance and quickly
set about getting our seismology hardware ready. The SEP
seismometer uses Amaseis software and is a simple horizontal
seismometer. (see picture above) Dr Paul Denton from the British
Geological Survey paid a visit to the college and gave all
interested staff (which also included members from the Physics
Department) a quick tutorial o