[ExI] California 5.1 Earthquake 25 Oct

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] California 5.1 Earthquake 25 Oct

On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 23:13, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> >...This is cool however, for now I will get that Berkeley app, see if 
> >it really can give me even a few seconds notice...spike
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> spike
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Wired has an article out now about Shake Alert and the MyShake app, explaining how it all works.

<https://www.wired.com/story/google-android-earthquake-alert-california/>

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BillK

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A few seconds of warning is most useful in an earthquake.  The ground shaking itself is harmless as a kitten.  The risk is some heavy object falling off the shelf and clobbering your ass.

On Tuesday's adventure, we were out in the open at a park, so we knew there was zero risk, but my son was in a chemistry lab at the high school, perhaps the worst place to be on campus.  They made them go outside for about half an hour.  Even a few seconds warning would give them a chance to get away from the storage cabinets, dive under a desk if they have human dignity to spare (granted most high schoolers have zero excess in that resource) or repent of their sins if they haven't been thru an earthquake before and don't realize the phenomenon will not harm them, assuming they are not as stupid as I was in the 1989 event.

spike