Webinar Schedule

Earthquake Early Warning for All: Powering the Western United States with ShakeAlert

Featuring Robert de Groot, U.S.G.S.

As populations grow and concentrate in ever-expanding urban areas, the importance of early warning systems grows as well. Earthquakes present a unique opportunity to leverage existing science and technology to make a real difference to those living in earthquake country.

The ShakeAlert® Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) System, managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, detects significant earthquakes so quickly that alerts can be delivered to people and automated systems potentially seconds before strong shaking arrives. ShakeAlert is the nation’s only public EEW system and it serves over 50 million residents and visitors in California, Oregon, and Washington.

In this session, special guest speaker, Dr. Robert de Groot, will walk us through how the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System positively impacts public safety and earthquake preparedness.

This informative webinar and Q&A session will focus on the science and technology of ShakeAlert and how it is being used to reduce the impact of earthquakes to save lives and property.

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Advancements in Structural Monitoring with Antelope

Featuring Kent Lindquist, Boulder Real Time Technologies, Inc.

Understanding the impact of ground motion on your structures is critical to the decision-making process, especially during emergency situations or in regulated industries. Engineers, regulators, and operators must maintain an informed understanding of how technological innovations can benefit the efficiency and safety at their facilities.

In this session, special guest speaker, Dr. Kent Lindquist, will explore the advancements in structural health monitoring, highlighting the capabilities of the Antelope Environmental Monitoring System.

This informative webinar and Q&A session will focus on the functionalities of the Bighorn monitoring tools and how the integration of Antelope and Bighorn enhances the Kinemetrics Condor product, ensuring continuous safe operations within the Nuclear Power Plants industry.

Additionally, Dr. Lindquist will outline future development directions, focusing on the potential for integrating structural health monitoring with regional seismic monitoring for improved safety and resilience.

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Delivering Rapid Post-Earthquake Safety Assessment of Bridges
through Combining Informed Decision Making with Real-Time Systems

Featuring Marlon Aguero, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Bridges are a critical backbone of our transportation systems. As such, making the right decisions quickly and responsibly during emergency events is imperative. Automated access to real-time information can enable engineers, operators, and other decision makers to expedite post-earthquake safety assessments.

Traditionally, bridge inspections are conducted every two years to detect potential deterioration. However, these inspections are expensive and may need to be done more frequently following extreme events like earthquakes, fires, or bridge strikes.

In this session, Marlon Aguero will discuss how an advanced monitoring and reporting system can be combined with various kinds of sensors to form the foundation of a complete structural health monitoring solution that enhances public safety by providing reliable data about bridge conditions, both long-term and unexpected events.

This informative webinar and Q&A session will focus on two case studies which illustrate the value of these systems to enhance day-to-day operations, preparedness for disaster scenarios, and overall bridge safety.

The information provided is a must for government officials, engineers, operators, emergency response professionals, and anyone involved in managing bridges.

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Applied Technologies to Improve Efficiency and Flexibility in Earthquake Monitoring and Response

Featuring Brandon Parrott, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Earthquake monitoring and response requires complex multi-faceted systems that serve stakeholders with diverse needs.

These systems must be optimized through a combination of science and technology that ensures the needs and expectations of stakeholders are met in a timely and relevant manner. If a given system meets the needs of one stakeholder group, but ignores others, it’s value will quickly come into question. Solutions must also be flexible, responsive, and integrated into the everyday routines of stakeholders.

The criticality of earthquake monitoring and response systems, from early warning to post-event assessments, makes implementing the proper solution and approach imperative.

In this session, Brandon Parrott will discuss a technological, behavioral, and architectural approach to ensuring that earthquake monitoring and response systems meet these needs. Using concrete examples and real-world observations, he will detail the impact on various stakeholders of implementing an effective system. He will also identify the areas that receive the most benefit from such sound design and the resulting downstream effects on earthquake response activities and decision making.

This webinar and Q&A session is a must for engineers, seismologists, emergency response professionals, and anyone involved in managing buildings or other critical structures.

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Earthquake Engineering, Instrumentation, KMIDam

Featuring Dr. André Alegre, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Dams are high potential risk infrastructures, designed to operate safely for many decades and to withstand exceptional loads. However, during their long lifespan, the structural condition can be affected by progressive deterioration or by earthquakes, leading to a loss of serviceability or even compromising structural integrity. The implementation of comprehensive monitoring for these critical structures is indispensable to allow for reliable observation and assessment of dam behavior in the long term, under normal operating conditions, and during exceptional events, such as earthquakes.

KMIDam is a complete dam management platform that combines Kinemetrics’ world-class instrumentation, ensuring maximum data return and unmatched reliability, and a high-end data center powered by advanced software tools for real-time seismic monitoring and alerting, automated event reporting, long-term structural health monitoring, and digital twinning.

In this session, Dr. André Alegre will explain how continuous access to actionable information through the KMIDam Platform facilitates long-term structural health monitoring, routine operations, and dam performance assessments during earthquake events. This presentation will demonstrate how enabling data-driven, informed decision-making ensures safe and compliant day-to-day operations and efficient emergency response management.

This webinar and Q&A session is a must for dam operators, engineers, and anyone interested in a detailed conversation about how breakthroughs made during real-world dam monitoring projects have advanced technology and influenced the state-of-the-art KMIDam Platform.

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From Trusted Solutions to Complete Platforms: How Past Innovation
Drives Future Technology

Featuring: Dr. Mathias Franke, Dr. André Alegre, Marlon Agüero, and Dr. Khalid Saifullah, Kinemetrics, Inc.

The Kinemetrics Open System & Services Division is well known for delivering and operating world-class seismic, environmental monitoring, and structural health monitoring solutions. The combination of the unmatched technology of Kinemetrics instrumentation and software combined with the decades of real-world experience of the OSS team drive industry-leading results.

But how did OSS get to this level, and what does the future hold for state-of-the-art solutions?

In this informative panel discussion and Q&A session, members of the OSS team leading development of solutions for dams, bridges, LNG facilities, and more will discuss the benchmark projects that led to key technical and operational breakthroughs that advanced Kinemetrics solutions to their current state. In addition, the panel will provide expert insight into how the lineup of Kinemetrics industry-specific platforms are changing the way leading organizations manage critical infrastructure today and what this means for the future.

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Modern Environmental Monitoring with Q8 and QME

Featuring: Arvind Parapuzha, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Environmental monitoring networks incorporate the acquisition of various categories of data sources. Simplifying the connection of multiple data sources to data acquisition equipment, while maintaining high fidelity, requires significant systems engineering to mitigate conditions that compromise the quality of acquired data.

The new Quanterra Mesh Extension (QME) for Q8 data acquisition systems allows for simplified integration of up to 16 one-sample-per-second environmental sensors, analog and digital. QME uses a modern IEEE wireless protocol, eliminating the management of multiple cables, ground loops, conduits, trenching, while adding freedom in sensors positioning. With the added mesh option for your high-fidelity stations, one can de-couple pressure information for pristine seismic signals.

In this informative webinar and Q&A, Arvind Parapuzha from Kinemetrics will describe how the QME improves environmental data quality, and lowers installation costs and time, without specialized software.  This live presentation is perfect for environmental monitoring system operators, or anyone who needs simple, reliable integration of monitoring equipment for temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, tilt, strain, external voltage, intrusion, and more.

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Highlighting the Most Important Factors in Earthquake Resilience and Response Solutions

Featuring: Brandon Parrott, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Over the past 55 years, Kinemetrics has led the development of seismic instrumentation and solutions that have enabled our customers and partners to advance earthquake science and engineering to the point we find it today.

This path of Advancement Through Innovation continues even today.

In this informative webinar and Q&A session, Brandon Parrott from Kinemetrics will review some of the most important recent events and findings related to earthquake response solutions, through the lens of the case studies and solutions presented in previous Kinemetrics Information Series Webinars.

More than just a simple year-end review, this presentation will concentrate on highlighting the critical factors driving state-of-the art earthquake solutions. This webinar is a must for any scientist, engineer, or emergency response professional involved in supporting earthquake resilience and response.

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Earthquake Early Warning with the Aspen Platform

Featuring: Dr. Mathias Franke, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Early warning systems have become critical to regional and organizational emergency response. The unexpected nature of earthquakes and the potential for large regional consequences only increases the importance of earthquake early warning.

Whether a region is seismically active, or experiences shaking from distant earthquakes, it is paramount for organizations and the public to be able to trust that they will receive the information they require to be safe and respond appropriately when an earthquake strikes. The precious seconds of warning provided by earthquake early warning systems such as that provided by the Kinemetrics Aspen Platform can help to ensure safety and promote effective emergency response.

Aspen is a complete seismic and environmental monitoring platform designed to meet the unique challenges presented by the world’s most critical seismic networks. Over decades, it has been proven to operate flawlessly in the most demanding conditions, while delivering in excess of 99% data return.

The added ability to provide earthquake early warning only enhances the value of the platform.

In this session, Dr. Mathias Franke will introduce the concepts and technology behind earthquake early warning and how the Aspen Platform addresses the needs of governments, regional authorities, and organizations.

Join us for this informative webinar and Q&A session, and take advantage of the opportunity to see the merging of earthquake early warning with actionable information.

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