New Earthquake Warning System Could Reduce Deaths
A radio signal emitted from the source of an earthquake will reach a city seconds faster than the shakes.
Updated | On September 8, 2017, sirens rang out across Mexico City. A minute later, the ground began trembling from a major earthquake off Mexico’s southern coast. The shake killed at least 60 people, but that minute may have saved a few lives.
That there was a siren at all is something the vulnerable the U.S. West Coast is unaccustomed to. “The way I know that an earthquake is happening,” says Robert-Michael de Groot, who lives near Los Angeles, “is I feel shaking.”
De Groot coordinates a program at
