No, not the game but Earth Quakes have been alot in the news the past month in Panama. Starting with a biggy on July 30th on the Richter scale at 6.5, they have continued several times a week ever since. Most of them seem to be around 4-5.

I don't know much about earth quakes as I've never really lived much in Earth Quake zones before. Actually Panama City is considered to be pretty much out of danger for Earth Quakes. But as a true geek, I'm of course obliged to research it.

It turns out that the Chiriqui the province of Panama with most incidents of earth quakes, have a pretty cool network of earth quake monitoring gear. There are currently 4 unmanned nodes in the network. Each one strategically located to cover a certain area. Each node has a 100Mhz Pentium with a watch dog circuit and is connected wirelessly to the internet. This allows the staff to monitor it remotely.

I'm sure this is all standard stuff in the world of earth quake monitoring, but as an outsider and a geek, I'm pretty facinated.