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Major improvements made to earthquake early-warning app
AccuWeather
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6/14/2024
According to the USGS, the app should now alert people faster than ever before when earthquakes have been detected. AccuWeather's Emmy Victor shows us how the early-warning system works.
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moments before the ground starts shaking from an earthquake. People who live on
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the west coast may feel their phone vibrating. Anything we can do to reduce
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the amount of time between when we detect the earthquake in the field and
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when someone gets something on their phone or when a system reacts to it is
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really our goal. Shake alert. A new early warning system can alert people
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seconds before a magnitude five or greater earthquake strikes. It may not
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seem like a lot of time, but it can prevent injuries. I think it's really
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important for people to know that the amount of time they may get is probably
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pretty short, but even the shortest amount of times, even that awareness
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will allow them to take that protective action, drop, cover and hold on. All
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they need is a couple of seconds to do that. The USGS debuted shake alert in
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California, Oregon and Washington. By using data from sensors placed up and
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down the coast, scientists are able to detect earthquakes. What we produce is
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something called the shake alert message. It's a data package that
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contains information about what the estimated magnitude, the location and
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the potential shaking from an earthquake. We make that shake alert
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message available to one of our many partners who are out there. In order to
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receive the alerts, you must activate emergency notifications on your phone.
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You can do so in your settings. For AccuWeather, I'm Emmy Victor.
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