What will the USGS do with the earthquake data from the NetQuakes seismograph?
Real-time software will automatically incorporate the data for computing ShakeMaps, improving earthquake locations and magnitudes, and determining the fault orientation. If the magnitude is greater than about 5, we will also use the seismograms to calculate the amount of fault displacement that occurred during the earthquake. The earthquake data will be quickly archived at public datacenters for use by seismologists and engineers. Noise triggers will be discarded.
