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http://www.washington.edu/news/2014...-stadium-monitoring-for-nfc-championship-game
UW seismologists expand stadium monitoring for NFC championship game
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network installed a third seismograph at CenturyLink Field this week in the wake of the Seattle Seahawks win over the New Orleans Saints last weekend that provided a trial by fire of the network’s website and new monitoring tools.
Before last weekend’s game, network scientists set up two near real-time seismic monitors at CenturyLink to augment data from a third seismograph about a block away. Together they provided a scientific measurement of the energy of Seahawks’ “12th man” – the fans – and the most difficult real-life test for the recently redesigned website, pnsn.org, as fans inundated the site.
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Those seismograms, dubbed “Hawk-O-Grams,” were so popular that Steve Malone, a UW professor emeritus of Earth and space sciences, had to shut down his experimental “Fan-O-Meter,” which combined the three stations’ outputs in a streaming graph that was almost synchronized with the TV broadcast delay.
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“We could tell from these signals something about what we were about to see on TV seconds later, due to the broadcast delay,” Malone said.
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UW seismologists expand stadium monitoring for NFC championship game
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network installed a third seismograph at CenturyLink Field this week in the wake of the Seattle Seahawks win over the New Orleans Saints last weekend that provided a trial by fire of the network’s website and new monitoring tools.
Before last weekend’s game, network scientists set up two near real-time seismic monitors at CenturyLink to augment data from a third seismograph about a block away. Together they provided a scientific measurement of the energy of Seahawks’ “12th man” – the fans – and the most difficult real-life test for the recently redesigned website, pnsn.org, as fans inundated the site.
...
Those seismograms, dubbed “Hawk-O-Grams,” were so popular that Steve Malone, a UW professor emeritus of Earth and space sciences, had to shut down his experimental “Fan-O-Meter,” which combined the three stations’ outputs in a streaming graph that was almost synchronized with the TV broadcast delay.
...
“We could tell from these signals something about what we were about to see on TV seconds later, due to the broadcast delay,” Malone said.
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