Early-Warning System Could Alert to Impending Earthquakes. Susanne Quick.
by Quick, Susanne; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 12Science. Publisher: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Detectors | Earthquake prediction | Earthquakes -- California | Natural disaster warning systemsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Scientists have developed an earthquake early-warning system that could give southern Californians a few precious seconds to get under a desk, shut down a commercial operation, get away from dangerous chemicals or high-tail it off a bridge." (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL) This article explains how detection of P-waves that precede the earth-shattering S-waves, can give a few seconds warning of an impending earthquake.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Early-Warning System Could Alert to Impending Earthquakes, May 1, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Scientists have developed an earthquake early-warning system that could give southern Californians a few precious seconds to get under a desk, shut down a commercial operation, get away from dangerous chemicals or high-tail it off a bridge." (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL) This article explains how detection of P-waves that precede the earth-shattering S-waves, can give a few seconds warning of an impending earthquake.
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