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California’s statewide Earthquake Early Warning system sent its first alert

Post author By Randall
Post date December 19, 2019
Categories In california, earthquake, gear, Mobile, myshake, services, shakealertla, Tech, usgs

[ad_1] According to a project manager quoted by the LA Times, about 40 people received the alert, and it took 8.7 seconds for the alert to go out. In this case, that reached people in the town of Paso Robles, about 22 miles away in enough time to give them about one second of warning. […]

California’s Earthquake Early Warning system rolls out statewide

Post author By Randall
Post date October 17, 2019
Categories In california, earthquake, gear, Mobile, myshake, Politics, Security, shakealertla, Tech, wireless emergency alert

[ad_1] This system doesn’t predict earthquakes, and after quake’s early this year failed to produce a notification on phones in Los Angeles, the threshold for a warning has been lowered to at least a magnitude 4.5 and Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) of 3, which is similar to a truck driving by outside your house. According […]

California’s statewide earthquake alert system launches Thursday

Post author By Randall
Post date October 16, 2019
Categories In california, earthquake, gear, Mobile, myshake, shakealertla, Tech, wireless emergency alert

[ad_1] In Mexico and Japan, warning systems that send out alerts for seismic events have been in place for years, but a similar setup for California has been long-delayed. Finally, on Thursday the first statewide Earthquake Early Warning System will go online. Until now, large-scale alerts have only been available in LA County, where they […]