[EAS] Earthquakes on EAS?

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Mark Allen  
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On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Lowell Kiesow <lkiesow at kplu.org> wrote:

> 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:
>> Questions how 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 earthquakes should 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 immune is 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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