Earthquake early warning system possible

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Earthquake early warning system possible

2010-01-03

12:12:37 am, by Pablo Edronkin, 136 words

Categories: United States of America (USA), Japan, México, Experiments, Experimentation and Experimentals, Emergency and Survival Systems, Surviving Earthquakes, Analysis, Reviews and Academic Issues, Geophysics, Safety and Security, Taiwan

Earthquake early warning system possible

An earthquake early warning system for California is feasible in coming years, according to research being presented Dec. 14-15 at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

The ongoing study demonstrates that an earthquake early warning system for California is possible and lays out how such a system could be built.

Earthquake early warning systems, already successfully deployed in Mexico, Japan and Taiwan, can detect an earthquake in progress and provide notice of seconds to tens of seconds prior to actual ground shaking. Building on developments in other countries with significant earthquake risk, scientists are exploring early warning in the United States.

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