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Public Forums => Disaster Awareness & CERT => Topic started by: Wrightwood on Apr 10, 11, 10:07:04 AM

Title: California can learn from the Chile, New Zealand and Japan quakes
Post by: Wrightwood on Apr 10, 11, 10:07:04 AM

Title: Re: California can learn from the Chile, New Zealand and Japan quakes
Post by: KW on Apr 10, 11, 12:17:08 PM

Quote from: Wrightwood on Apr 10, 11, 10:07:04 AM

In Japan, automated seismic recording systems have been modernized to the point that they can determine that a large earthquake is underway, can estimate the areas of likely strong shaking, and can dispatch warnings to distant at-risk areas before the shaking arrives. In the recent magnitude 9 earthquake, Tokyo's televisions and cellphones received a warning more than half a minute before strong shaking arrived. Elevators moved to the nearest floor and opened, trains stopped, surgeries halted and manufacturing suspended production. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-jones-earthquakes-20110408,0,1313099.story

This is fantastic, I had no idea.