[EAS] Earthquakes on EAS?

[JGabb at aol.com]

All of this is interesting but in it's developmental stage. They are saying 
 15 to 20 seconds before the quake. Could we activate the EAS system in 15 
secs?  By the time it gets down the daisy chain the quake will have 
happened! There is  no question that progress is being made but EAS with or without 
CAP cannot be of  any assistance with such short notice. That doesn't mean 
that someday,  hopefully, this type of alert will give us more time to alert 
people.
 
Jim Gabbert
California Chair SECC
 
 
In a message dated 2/23/2011 11:03:49 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
lkiesow at kplu.org writes:

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-cali
fornia/>http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/23/quake-early-warning-realit
y-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
KPLU 88.5,  KVIX 89.3, KPLI 90.1
www.kplu.org   www.jazz24.org   


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