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Press coverage highlights
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Do you want a 20-second warning?
If we adopted UC Berkeley seismologist Richard Allen's
breakthrough earthquake alarm system, your cell phone and laptop
could alert you to the Big One before the shaking begins.
By Erik Vance
Photographs by Alex Fradkin
Published in San Francisco November 2008
Read the article at
San Francisco
magazine or download a
pdf.
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Earthquake early warning around the world,
but not yet in California
In December 2007 at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union a special session was convened on earthquake early warning around the world. While several countries - Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Mexico and Romania - now have earthquake early warning, the seismic networks in California are still lacking for such systems. Here is some of the resulting coverage.
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Editorial - 12/15/2007
A few seconds warning could save lives, and all for just $2 or $3 per person
Download a pdf of the editorial.
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California's earthquake warning system lags
those in Europe, Japan
Visit the
SF Chronicle or download a
pdf.
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State lags in early warning system, quake experts say
Visit the
Sacramento Bee or download a
pdf.
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Earthquakes:
Breaking New Ground
Can earthquakes be predicted? Northern California researchers are now identifying the slow-moving clues that may foreshadow violent quakes. Their work may provide even a few seconds of warning to open elevator doors, slow down trains or alert firefighters.
This 10 min segment aired on public television in September 2007.
ElarmS is the topic of the final third of the show.
KQED Quest website
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The Next Big One
This article by Joel Achenbach explores the problem of earthquake hazard on the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. His journey starts on the UC Berkeley campus at Memorial Stadium and takes him around the world.
Read the article at National Geographic.
National Geographic Magazine, April 2006.
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Big One's first jolt might be a lifesaver
Researchers say fast computer analysis could allow quake alert in early seconds
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Following the publication of our work on deterministic rupture in
Nature
the media explored what this could mean for earthquake early warning systems.
This story by David Perlman appeared on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle November 10, 2005.
Visit the
SF Chronicle or download a
pdf.
More of the press coverage.
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Earthquake Alerts: Buying a Few Precious Seconds
In January 2004 our research of the potential for earthquake early warning was listed on Discover Magazine's Top 100 Science Stories of 2003.
Read more at
Discovery
or download a
pdf.
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New Software Gauges the Size of
Imminent Earthquakes
May 2, 2003
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In 2003 we published an article in
Science
presenting our results of rapid earthquake magnitude determination and proposing that this could be used to build an earthquake early warning system.
Visit the
NYT Archives
or download a
pdf.
More of the press coverage.
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Shaking up system of quake predictions
Pair's alarm could save people, buildings
May 5, 2003
More on the 2003 article in
Science.
Visit the
SF Chronicle Archives
or download a
pdf.
More of the press coverage.
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ElarmS pages:
Introduction |
Research highlights |
Publications |
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Support for this project is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey. The ongoing testing of ElarmS and other early warning algorithms in California is a collaboration within the
California Integrated Seismic Network
(CISN)
between the University of California, Berkeley, Caltech, SCEC/USC and the U.S. Geological Survey.
For more information contact
Richard Allen.
© Richard M Allen
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