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The Chaos in Stasis Lab officially began on a Friday on 15/05/2026 after a particularly long and distressing spell of "is this really what I'm doing with my life (nothing)?". It is the culmination of hours or maybe even years of semi-functional existentialism and too many rewatches of Steins;Gate, and exists as a hobby as much as it does a serious endeavour and purpose.
At first the idea was to fill my room with technical junk, record insane things until someone found me dead one day covered in a pile of EEG printouts and pentagrams, and live my idiotic 中二病 life in peace. It then evolved with the realisation that actually you don't need to be a scientist (slur) to be a Scientist (term of endearment), and that there are plenty of real things one can do with real data that are helpful to human scientific knowledge as a whole, even without the ability to derive a paycheck or use expensive university equipment.
Currently the Lab is run out of a laptop and several bits of paper, generally updated during my working hours as I work night shift with a lot of down time. However, the equipment required for later experiments and ideal functioning of the Lab is steadily being gathered in my bedroom, with the goal of moving it out into the spare room once that is no longer quarantining the kittens we accidentally rescued.
Sudo, a 32 year old Australian psych graduate trying to get into med school. She has been to Japan many times and thinks earthquakes are fun actually, but only when you are quite sure they are not going to kill you. She occasionally has nightmares about being in a skyscraper bending over 90 degrees at the top approaching another skyscraper which is also bending over 90 degrees at the top, but towards her.
Quakelog: Quakelog is a database of Japanese earthquakes which includes all earthquakes (however small) since 13/05/2026, with the hope of drawing conclusions and perhaps projections from this data. While Japanese earthquake data is particularly rich, we are currently looking at expanding the database to include earthquake data from Australia and New Zealand as well.
Why are you focusing on earthquakes in a country you don't even live in?
Because Japan has it ALL when it comes to earthquakes. They are moving and shaking almost every single bloody day. The tectonic plates beneath the country also have the ability to generate some of the largest earthquakes on Earth, though we always pray those don't happen as destructively as they can. Japan also has siesmic detectors arranged in a grid every 20km all over the country, and generate extremely rich earthquake and tsunami information. In short, why would you want to study earthquakes anywhere else?
Why the lack of website styling?
Because sometimes you're more interested in making things work than styling them. Odd thing to say for a former web designer, I know. But also, have you ever sometimes felt that simplicity is the way to go? So much of modern life is about making things 'pretty' rather than making them work. I'm a bit sick of that ideal, and also there's a bit of nostalgia to be found in the Old Web, so this is the route I've taken.
Okay... but why are you letting the website table display suck on mobile?
Because I'm lazy as much as I am an idealist, cur. Go get a real computer.
Can I help out the Lab even though the previous FAQ insulted me?
Hell yeah you can! Come back to this page in a week or two and drop me a line once I have an appropriate email address to give you. We definitely have jobs to be done! We also hope to start up a Patreon in the future to help fund lab expenses. All contributions, material, monetary, etc. will be credited to you, and highly appreciated.
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