{"id":5652,"date":"2015-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/weekend-forecast-beast-quake-in-seattle"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:22:15","slug":"weekend-forecast-beast-quake-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/weekend-forecast-beast-quake-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Forecast: \u2018Beast quake\u2019 in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Odds of a Seattle Seahawks win vs. the GreenBay Packers this Sunday? 20-61. Potential for earthshaking reactions from Seattle fans, aka the 12<sup>th<\/sup> man? 110%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These chances look pretty good for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnsn.org\/seahawks\">Pacific Northwest Seismic Network<\/a> (PNSN) researchers, who have installed seismometers to <a href=\"https:\/\/pnsn.org\/seahawks\">measure the seismic activity<\/a> that results from the celebratory ruckus after big plays at Seattle\u2019s CenturyLink Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Called \u201cBeast Quakes,\u201d after a gravity-defying touchdown run by Marshawn \u201cBeast Mode\u201d Lynch during a 2011 playoff game, PNSN helps fans quantify the fun. During this Sunday\u2019s playoff game, PNSN will provide real-time seismic data through <a href=\"https:\/\/pnsn.org\/seahawks\/quickshake\">its streaming \u201cQuickShake\u201d data page<\/a> and via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PNSN1\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pnsn.org\/seahawks\/quickshake\">Streaming of seismic data<\/a> is based on open source software, with the internet-facing components hosted on <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\">Microsoft Azure<\/a>. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/firehose\/2014\/01\/28\/beast-quake-felt-round-world-thanks-to-windows-azure\/\">partnering with Microsoft last playoff season<\/a> to improve the site\u2019s reliability (it\u2019s not easy to keep up with 12<sup>th<\/sup> man demand for more Seahawks data!), the teams got together this past weekend to make the real-time fan experience even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Although we did this same experiment last season, this time around the story was picked up by the national media,\u201d said Jon Connolly, PNSN Software Engineer. \u201cAfter stories appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/01\/seattle-seahawk-fans-seismicity-quake\/\">Wired<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/10\/us\/scientists-to-track-effects-of-fans-at-seahawks-panthers-game.html\">New York Times<\/a> and NBC Nightly News, amongst countless other outlets, I quickly realized that I needed to get this product in the cloud immediately. Nik Garkusha and his team quickly mobilized and had QuickShake stabilized on Microsoft Azure in hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;technical team (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nik_G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nik Garkusha<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bureado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jose Miguel Parrella<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFowlerMSFT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cory Fowler<\/a>) upgraded the site to ensure that the web sockets could broadcast <i>hundreds of samples per second<\/i> gathered from CenturyLink Field seismometers. Every one of the thousands of fans who connected to PNSN website opened one such web socket and received the &#8220;early warning&#8221; data from the stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile the science of this is very rigorous, the architecture for data streaming is surprisingly simple and the deployment was very easy\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nik_g\">Nik Garkusha<\/a>, a Senior Product Manager on the Microsoft Azure team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using a combination of <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/websites\/\">Azure Web Sites<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/virtual-machines\/\">Virtual Machines<\/a> running Ubuntu Linux, the team partnered with the PNSN gurus to develop and deploy a set of Node.js applications to gather data from the game, and use WebSockets technology to stream the data near real-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To achieve massive internet-scale they relied on the autoscale capabilities of Azure Web Sites, and load-balancing of Virtual Machines with <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/traffic-manager\/\">Azure Traffic Manager<\/a> to fire up more independent instances as needed, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Microsoft Azure has allowed us to introduce a new way of visualizing real-time, fan generated shaking that has such low latency it beats the 10-second TV delay by as much as eight seconds,\u201d said Connolly. \u201cThis means that a viewer watching both QuickShake and the game will most likely know if a play was successful or not six to eight seconds before it unfolds on TV.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the Seahawks delivered seismic results last weekend, courtesy of big plays like Kam Chancellor\u2019s 90-yard interception return for a touchdown and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/2015\/01\/11\/kam-chancellor\">superman-like field goal blocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bamquake_thumb.webp\" alt=\"text, whiteboard\" class=\"wp-image-9142 webp-format\" title=\"Bamquake\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bamquake_thumb.webp\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/firehose\/2014\/01\/28\/beast-quake-felt-round-world-thanks-to-windows-azure\/\">Nik\u2019s example from last year\u2019s playoffs<\/a>, we recommend a \u201ctwo-screen experience\u201d for this coming Sunday: one with the game and one with the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnsn.org\/seahawks\">PNSN fan site<\/a>. 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