Re: [californiadisasters] Congress urged to fund earthquake early warning system

Sorry to belabor things but the use of the word did come up at an interesting time in the article. At least I found it to be amusing.

"However, that doesn't include deploying underwater censors off the Pacific Northwest or the costs of developing and disseminating the alerts."

Big Brother is watching! :)
73,
kevin
kc6pob
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On Sun, 6/22/14, Lin Kerns linkerns@gmail.com [californiadisasters] <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Congress urged to fund earthquake early warning system
To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 9:02 PM


 









I think it
was just a typo, as the author did spell "sensors"
correctly later in the article. However, there is no excuse
these days for misspelling a word, what with the
availability of Word Correct.



Lin






On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at
10:22 PM, Kate Hutton katehutton@gmail.com
[californiadisasters] <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:

















 









What is with the editing in these main
stream (?) news reports?  Censors keep smut off the
internet, sensors detect ground motion!



Kate




On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Lin Kerns linkerns@gmail.com
[californiadisasters] <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
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Congress
urged to fund earthquake early warning system


Raju Chebium, June 21,
2014





WASHINGTON –
Japan has built an earthquake early warning system that
alerts people
throughout the country before the earth begins to shake.
Mexico, China,
Romania and Turkey have created similar systems for some of
the most
quake-prone regions.But the United States has no such
system.Even
though a prototype has been tested for the past two years
in California
and the technology is almost ready to be deployed on a
larger scale,
advocates say Congress hasn't provided the funding because
it has simply
not been a priority."We are sure there will be
such a system
after a big earthquake. We would like to do it before a big
earthquake,"
said Doug Given, head of the U.S. Geological Survey's
Southern
California Earthquake Monitoring project in
Pasadena.Advocates
are pressuring Congress to pay for a system that will warn
people
minutes or seconds before earthquakes occur. They say even
such short
notice will save countless lives and prevent billions of
dollars in
property losses.They want Congress to expand
ShakeAlert, a
2-year-old program that sends trial alerts to a handful of
government
agencies and companies in California. The national system
should go live
first in California, Oregon and Washington – where 71
percent of the
nation's earthquakes occur – and then expand into the
rest of the
country in phases, Given said.Southern California
alone experiences about 10,000 quakes in a year, though
virtually all of them are minor tremors.A
state law adopted last year requires California to
establish a
statewide early alert system. But Given said that effort
relies on the
scaled up ShakeAlert model.Given, coordinator of the
ShakeAlert
test program, said scientists are good at detecting quakes
as they occur
using the California Integrated Seismic Network. But the
network's
monitoring "stations," located throughout California,
can be easily
upgraded to predict when and where the next quake will
occur, he said.All
that's required is a network of slightly more
sophisticated sensors
buried at least 8 feet underground up and down the West
Coast – 400
additional stations in California and 100 in Washington and
Oregon
combined, Given said in a recent interview.Such a
system is
especially critical in California because it has a 99.7
percent chance
of experiencing a severe earthquake – magnitude 6.7 or
higher on the
Richter scale – within the next 30 years, according
William Leith, a
science adviser for the Geological Survey, who testified
earlier this
month before a House Natural Resources
subcommittee.The
Geological Survey estimates it would need $38 million
initially to get a
land-based early warning system up and running on the West
Coast and
$16 million a year to run it. That's a modest sum as far
as federal
programs go and far less than the $600 million Japan spent
on its
national system.However, that doesn't include
deploying
underwater censors off the Pacific Northwest or the costs of
developing
and disseminating the alerts.The alerts would give
people a
precious few seconds – or a few minutes in the best-case
scenario – to
take cover before the ground beneath their feet starts to
shake,
advocates say. A few other benefits: Authorities could stop
trains,
close the valves on oil and gas pipelines and shut down
nuclear reactors
when the alarms sound.Advocates envision warnings
going out over
the emergency broadcast system, cellular networks and the
Internet, so
people get text alerts like they do for adverse weather and
missing
children. But those arrangements are far from complete.
Given said
officials are also working on smaller but equally crucial
details like
what the alerts should say and what tone should be used so
people can
distinguish quake warnings from other types of emergencies.
The
government also hasn't talked to private companies to make
sure the
alerts go out on Twitter, Facebook and other social
media.However, advocates say, the important thing is
that the sensors can now predict quakes, not just monitor
them after the fact.Richard
Allen, director of the University of California's
Berkeley
Seismological Lab, told the House subcommittee that
ShakeAlert will be
ready for prime time in two years once Congress releases the
first
funding installment.ShakeAlert issued a warning 40
seconds before
last year's Anza earthquake near Los Angeles and 24
seconds ahead of a
small tremor in the vicinity of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake,
which killed
63 people and injured nearly 3,800 others in the San
Francisco and
Monterey Bay areas, Allen said."Investing in this
system now will
provide fast, accurate and robust warnings," he said.
"The earthquake
threat along the U.S. west coast increases every day as the
strain
builds on our faults."http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2014/06/21/congress-urged-fund-earthquake-early-warning-system/11141101/





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