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(12-16-2014, 03:21 PM)Jim W. Wrote: California has received congressional funding to begin rolling out an earthquake early-warning system next year, capping nearly a decade of planning, setbacks and technological breakthroughs, officials said Sunday.

Is a certain person J.B. a part of thr warning system? Just wondering is all!

If I am thinking of who you are thinking of, I doubt it, and I would be very concerned if he was; concerned about the quality and sanity of the program.

Anyway, the warning system is NOT a prediction system. It's to warn distant locations of the arrival of existing earthquake waves for a quake that has already started. Japan and Mexico already have similar systems. I recall at least one video of the Japanese system from during the Tohoku quake. A resident in Tokyo started filming in their apartment, which included the TV showing the warning. There was a good 30 seconds of video rolling before they got the shaking.

Here's a couple videos of live broadcasts as it happened:







And one person's experience, the video I was referring to:




But it's not a perfect system. This one was apparently a false alarm:




Whereas a little shaker in the US gets these reactions:




Those who dove under their desks were mocked by some, but were in reality the smart ones.

Brian