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Hi, and welcome to the Chaos in Stasis Lab. This website is designed to house various experimental projects and builds intended to make the world a better (or worse) place. Jokes aside, it is a little hub of basement citizen science, minus the basement. Please feel free to poke around - we hope you find our data and experiments (if we ever get around to them) interesting and maybe even useful.
The Lab is particularly interested in neurology and siesmology, although until more equipment is afforded at the moment we are almost exclusively focusing on siesmological data. Our current foremost project is Quakelog, 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.
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Few updates today, including one I'm quite proud of! Quakelog's UI has been completely revamped to be a lot nicer on the eyes. It is however far more expanded than it used to be. I'm going to work on an additional nice UI that has the earthquakes collapsed so viewing lots of them at a time isn't so cumbersome. Still though, I hope you like the new design! We've also added a field for information source on each earthquake, so you know where the information comes from.
Quakelog also now has a logo. I made it in two minutes and it seemed to amuse my friends, so it's here to stay. I'm told it's quite evocative.
Finally, the way earthquakes are uploaded has been totally revamped. I now no longer need to manually type all the information from every quake; I've written a script that extracts all the data for me and puts it in the database. It still has to be activated manually, so Quakelog will still only be updated once every 1-3 days with the latest earthquakes. However, it significantly reduces the risk that my RSI puts an end to Quakelog altogether one day. Those Kumamoto aftershocks really challenged me.
That's all for now. I hope you continue to enjoy Quakelog!
Good news! Quakelog is now additionally tracking latitude and longitude data of the earthquake's epicentre (at least on the archive page). This update has been retroactively applied to yesterday's quakes and will now be included in all future quakes.
Okay, it has been a hot minute since an update! This has got an awful lot to do with the recent large earthquakes in Japan, culminating in the giant Kumamoto earthquake last month. This generated more than a hundred aftershocks per day for several days, followed by dozens upon dozens in the days and weeks after. Needless to say, for a poor little quakelogger like me who enters everything in by hand, this caused a bit of a backlog!
Unfortunately, this backlog still exists. While Quakelog is now up to date with all the earthquakes that occurred (incl. time, date, location, magnitude, intensity, etc.), specific breakdown of location data by municipality for a good chunk of them is still awaiting entry. I can only really go as fast as my RSI allows, which is problematic. I didn't expect so many large events, followed by the Kumamoto quake of all things, to happen just a few months after I started earthquake tracking.
This of course has pushed to the forefront the need for an automatic logging system. Being too busy to build said system from having to log quakes caused a little bit of an issue. It will now be prioritised, because I don't think my wrists are going to survive another event like this. Once that's done, perhaps I will look at "prettifying" the data. Long term goals.
Anyway, I hope you're enjoying the Chaos in Stasis Lab! Providing no more major earth-shattering events occur, there'll be more to come in the future months beyond just Quakelog. One such plan is to translate certain NHK articles on earthquakes for English viewing, with some added commentary, since the Japanese absolutely know things about earthquakes and their tectonic region that don't quickly, or ever, make it to English print, and they have some very interesting things to say. So please look forward to that.
That's all for now. Take care!
No longer updated in this manner. This section will be removed once I find a good place to file away the code, since the code will remain useful for other parts of the site.
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