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The app integrates data from the US Geological Survey, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, and lists damage reports and safety tips. It also converts users’ cell phones ...
ShakeAlert is an earthquake early warning system (EEW) in the United States, developed and operated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners. [1] As of 2021, the system issues alerts for the country's West Coast (specifically the states of California, Oregon and Washington ). It is expected that the system will be expanded ...
Since the three damaging earthquakes that occurred in the American Midwest and the United States East Coast ( 1755 Cape Ann, 1811–12 New Madrid, 1886 Charleston) were well known, it became apparent to settlers that the earthquake hazard was different in California. While the 1812 San Juan Capistrano, 1857 Fort Tejon, and 1872 Owens Valley ...
A home damaged by an earthquake Dec. 20, 2022, in Rio Dell, Calif. (Godofredo A. Vásquez / Associated Press) California's earthquake early-warning system is getting a seismic upgrade, one that ...
US Geological Survey, Seismological Laboratory of Caltech. Dr Lucy Jones in 1994. Lucile M. Jones (born 1955) is a seismologist and public voice for earthquake science and earthquake safety in California. [1] One of the foremost and trusted public authorities on earthquakes, [2] Jones is viewed by many in Southern California as "the Beyoncé of ...
The first publicly available alerting system was the ShakeAlertLA app, released on New Year's Eve 2018 (although it only alerted for shaking in the Los Angeles area). On October 17, 2019, Cal OES announced a statewide rollout of the alert distribution system in California, using mobile apps and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system.
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A 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook the Southern California area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The nearly 1-mile deep quake hit about 5 1/2 miles southwest from Corona in Riverside County ...