[EAS] Earthquakes on EAS?

[Lowell Kiesow]

It's a for-profit company.  They'll be happy to 
share their warnings with anyone who pays them 
$$$ for the service.  Unless some government 
agency has deep pockets, public warning isn't 
going to happen from their system.  Of course, if 
the science holds up over time, there is no 
reason that government could not independently 
build on the idea for public warning.  I vaguely 
recall that Japan is doing this, and they use the 
network to shut off hazardous utilities in advance of damage.


At 09:17 PM 2/23/2011, you wrote:
>Questions­how do you think we’re going to 
>receive these messages? What does “QuakeGuard” 
>envision as the distribution system for these 
>alerts? Would they provide the input to the CAP 
>server? Is it realistic to expect today’s EAS to 
>push out these warnings in 15 minutes? Can 
>broadcasters do that? We do have an Event Code 
>for earthquakes­should it be a mandatory code? 
>Should that decision be made at the state level 
>or at the federal level? Will state plans have 
>to be re-written again to accommodate the 
>earthquake code? California, Alaska, Nevada and 
>Hawaii are all aware of earthquake dangers but 
>no state is immune­is it more important to 
>install these warning systems in states like New 
>York and Missouri where quakes are rare or in 
>the West where quakes are common?
>
>Adrienne
>
><http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/23/quake-early-warning-reality-california/>http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/23/quake-early-warning-reality-california/
>
>
>Earthquake Early Warning System a Reality in California
>
>By Adam Housley
>
>Published February 23, 2011 | FoxNews.com
>What if you could be alerted before the only 
>natural disaster that offers no warning actually 
>hits? Even if the alert came just seconds sooner?
>
>In California's Coachella Valley around Palm 
>Springs, a state-of-the-art, first-in-the-world 
>earthquake early warning system in now installed 
>and operational. Twelve locations are now in 
>place with 120 sites planned, all meant to 
>detect an earthquake and give people a chance to 
>get under a table, or in the case of a fire 
>station, get the engines outside of the building.
>
>Created by a Silicon Valley startup, QuakeGuard 
>sensors are designed to detect the initial, or 
>"P" energy waves given off by every quake, even 
>though  it's only the later, or "S" waves that 
>do all the damage. The time in-between the two 
>waves varies depending on the proximity to the 
>epicenter and as the first sensor closest to the 
>quake goes off, it can offer advance notice  -- 
>from a few seconds to a full minute-- to other locations farther away.
>


         Lowell Kiesow, Chief Engineer
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