WAVE and the Einstein Telescope
What does WAVE have to do with gravitational wave detection? Why are seismic sensor networks so important, especially for the next generation of gravitationa...
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2024
The vibrations of HSV vs. Regensburg
During the football match of Hamburger SV against Jahn Regensburg in the Volksparkstadion on September 15, 2024, our WAVE fiber optic network was again liste...
Deichquakes: Do you hear (and see) the signals?
After listening to Taylor Swift and several soccer games we took the chance to listen to the Deichkind concert on our fiber glass network. On August 30th Dei...
How the HSV supporters make the ground shake
During the first home match of Hamburger SV of the new season against Hertha BSC on August 10, our WAVE fiber optic network was also listening live in DESY’s...
History of Waterfall diagrams in the Livestream on Twitch
Why did we start with livestreams? We do not remember exactly how it started, but I think Celine got a call from reporters for a local newspaper and they wer...
M7.1 Earthquake in Japan
Following the recent M7.1 earthquake in southern Japan, our team is currently combing through the WAVE network data, as we believe we’ve captured this signif...
Taylor’s waves in EuXFEL tunnel
Here, you see that the seismic waves from Love Story and Shake it Off reached all the way through the 3.4km long EuXFEL tunnel!
First results from the Taylor Swift concert!
Spectrogram of the full concert
PETRA’s heartbeat during the Taylor Swift concert
The ‘rainbow blobs’ show the strength of the arriving signals along the fiber but filtered for different frequency bands. So the wider a specific colour band...
Livestream of Taylor Swift making WAVEs
How does the city of Hamburg swing along to Taylor Swift?
What is WAVE and how is DAS working?
In this short video, our doctoral researcher Wanda explains what WAVE is, what the fiber network looks like, and how the DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing) t...
What Do Seismic Waves Have to Do with Concerts?
What are seismic waves, and what do we expect from a concert or football game happening 2 km away? In this short video, our doctoral researcher Wanda explain...
Science City Day - Exploring the WAVE Network
On Saturday, June 1, 2024, from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, the WAVE team participated in Science City Day at the DESY campus. Visitors explored the fascinating wor...
2023
M7.5 Earthquake in Turkey
In February 2023, we participated in a global measurement campaign where all Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) systems worldwide were invited to conduct a j...
2021
M7.4 Earthquake in China
We’ve captured a significant seismic event along our Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) fiber network. On May 21, 2021, an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck...