For forty years, Kinemetrics has been creating products for monitoring earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and nuclear proliferation while helping society to understand these events on a global, regional and local scale. In addition the company has been creating products for monitoring civil structures, bridges, dams, and nuclear power plants as this monitoring provides important information about the structures' responses to natural or man-induced seismicity.

Kinemetrics, with its corporate office in California and its additional sales, services and repair office in Switzerland, has a solid reputation for producing unique, high quality instruments. With a reputation for high-quality products and superior reliability, Kinemetrics pays careful attention to customer service and satisfaction. Over 45 reliable representatives and a full-service department dedicated to fulfilling maintenance contracts, installations, training and support serve customers throughout the world.

Since the transfer of ownership to Oyo Corporation of Japan in 1991, Kinemetrics has developed into the undisputed world leader for cutting-edge seismic instrumentation. With the 1999 acquisition of Quanterra Inc. of Harvard, Massachusetts and the 2009 acquisition of Metrozet of Los Angeles, Ca, strategic partnership with Streckeisen AG, Pfungen, Switzerland and BRTT, a seismic software company in Boulder, Colorado, the company continues with its strategic plan of creating a new generation of very broadband seismic instrumentation and network solutions. Through cooperative efforts with each other and with other strategic partnerships, our organizations successfully designed, delivered, installed and now maintain national seismic networks and observatories in such diverse areas as the Middle East, South America and Asia.

Kinemetrics’ importance in the world market is often a source of surprise for those who live in or visit Pasadena in Southern California. Few people are aware that this company produces many of the instruments that provide seismological data to scientists and supply engineers with valuable information enabling them to make buildings, dams and bridges safer. Even fewer people know that Kinemetrics’ instruments are used to monitor the seismic safety of many of the world’s most famous structures, including New York’s Statue of Liberty, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, Egypt’s Sphinx, Athens’ Parthenon and India’s Taj Mahal.

Kinemetrics’ manufacturing and design facilities in Southern California enable the company to take advantage of the unique opportunities of the region. Partnerships with leading higher education and scientific research institutions ensure that the company will remain in the forefront of technological innovation.

Kinemetrics has been certified with the International Standards Organization’s ISO9001 quality management system since 1999. The company has since upgraded its certification to ISO9001:2008.

Kinemetrics continues to be known and respected around the world for producing reliable, high-quality products. The company values, present since Kinemetrics’ inception in 1969, are still reflected in our Quality Statement:

Kinemetrics employs the best-qualified people to produce the highest quality products, systems, and solutions — on time, on-line, every time.