There are at least two different types of gravitational wave sources. There are sources that send out a single gravitational wave, and there are sources that send out multiple gravitational waves. For a single gravitational wave, you don’t have to do much with the equipment, but with a multiple gravitational wave source you have to move all of it from place to place in order to get maximum data… and there’s tremendous amounts of data that can be gathered from a source that’s sending out multiple gravitational waves.
Gravitational Waves can be some of the most interesting things that you’ll ever get to observe with an interferometer, computer, cameras and other equipment. Gravitational Waves aren’t those boring things that LIGO and VIRGO show us; gravitational waves are extremely interesting when you use all of that equipment properly. Especially when you find spacetime first, in order to set everything to ZERO.
The cool thing is that you and I can track down where gravitational waves are coming from here on Earth by moving all of this equipment from one location to another. If you want to track down closer gravitational waves that are throwing out gravitational waves only minutes apart… all day and all night long… and they usually exist within 100 miles or so from your location… you shouldn’t be sloppy in doing so, you should keep your tracking equipment sealed up at all times.
Being sloppy can endanger your life in more than one way when tracking down gravitational waves. When I was much younger and had discovered how to track down gravitational waves in 1995 to their sources here on Earth, I was very sloppy. Back then I had no idea that others could become dangerous out in the field towards me. If you ever decide to track down gravitational waves in the future, don’t tell anyone, or your life will be in danger; great danger if you succeed in tracking down gravitational waves to their source, especially if the sources are future earthquakes and or “slow earthquakes”. So, you have the human factor to watch out for, don’t trust them when out tracking down earthquakes before they strike, if the earthquakes are sending out multiple gravitational waves.
Then there is the fact that you are a beginner, and don’t know better, just as I was decades ago. Keep all of your equipment sealed up and keep a list so that you don’t leave any of it behind when out tracking down where gravitational waves are coming from. Check your list when you get ready to leave an area that you just checked for gravitational waves. Tracking gravitational waves to their source when earthquake activity is the source means that you should start out with plenty of gas in the tank of your vehicle and that you should pack food and drinks to eat and drink along the way. Make sure you carry an ATLAS of the state you are in, and plenty of paper for hard copy, something could happen to your laptop, and you can lose your data.
Don’t be sloppy out in the field, keep everything sealed up tight. You are messing with gravitational waves, even though they don’t move matter when passing through, they move “spacetime”, spacetime distortions detected by the interferometer are what alerts your computer that something is occurring and how much it’s occurring over space and time.
Now that you know how to detect distortions in spacetime, if you are sloppy you are going to have to watch what you do in the future at or near this location. If you weren’t sloppy, you have nothing to worry about at or near this location in the future. Think about it, with that equipment “distortions in spacetime are located and taking place”. It’s not the distortion of “space” that you have to be worried about, it's the “distortion of time” that you should be worried about.
What do you think can’t possibly happen when a distortion in time is discovered? That’s right, “time” is displaced either into the future or into the past. You need to discover the past and the future with that same equipment, because both exist along with the present, and if you are there detecting distortions in spacetime, well then, the distortion was either of the past, or of the future. Even though you didn’t see anything, or hear anything at the time, it's when you come back at a later date, that something else can be waiting there for you, and it’s not your friend. Tracking down a multiple gravitational wave source can end your life if you seriously aren’t watching what’s going on around that location when you come back in the future. At one point in time or another, something is going to be waiting there for you, because you split the spacetime continuum or at least opened a doorway.
So… what I know about gravitational waves, is that they are easy to detect with an interferometer, computer, cameras and other equipment… and that your life will definitely be in danger out in the field if you are tracking down a gravitational wave source that’s sending out “multiple gravitational waves” that’s possibly up to around 130 miles away or less on average. Yes… it's very fun to track down gravitational waves that are coming from a source that’s emitting multiple gravitational waves here on Earth, but once people see all of that equipment, they sometimes become dangerous; stay away from people when traveling with all of that equipment. Be on the lookout for critters at all times.