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1/7/2016 Latest quake a reminder of need for an early warning system | The Seattle Times
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Latest quake a reminder of need for an early warningsystem
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1/7/2016 Latest quake a reminder of need for an early warning system | The Seattle Times
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Congress is finally waking up to the need for better earthquakepreparedness in the Pacific Northwest.
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake last Tuesday near Victoria, B.C., is the latestreminder of this region’s proximity to the major fault line known as the Cascadiasubduction zone.
Seismic activity is normal for this area, but better preparedness would save livesin case a massive shaker comes.
1/7/2016 Latest quake a reminder of need for an early warning system | The Seattle Times
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A New Yorker story published last July went viral with its dire warnings about thepossibility everything west of Interstate 5 might be destroyed if the big one hits.
The tone of that report was overly alarmist, but at least Congress is finally takingnotice.
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1/7/2016 Latest quake a reminder of need for an early warning system | The Seattle Times
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Tucked into a federal omnibus budget passed on Dec. 18 is $8.2 million to helpfund an earthquake early warning system in the West Coast.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor,members of their respective chambers’ appropriations committees, helped securethe money.
This is a good start and they will need to keep fighting for more funds.Maintaining and operating an early detection system costs around $16 millionannually. That’s small compared to the nearly $5 billion in damages caused everyyear by earthquakes nationwide, according to the U.S. Federal EmergencyManagement Agency.
The U.S. Geological Survey is developing early warning tools with a consortium ofresearchers at the University of Washington, the California Institute ofTechnology, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oregon.
John Vidale, a UW professor and director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Center,says an early warning system has been in development for years. This newfunding allows researchers to keep testing and replacing parts to ensure earlydetection is reliable.
If people are notified a few seconds or minutes before the ground shakes belowthem, they could move away from heavy objects and windows and find safe cover.
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Early detection could at least give families a better chance of saving themselves.
Editorial board members are editorial page editor Kate Riley, Frank A. Blethen,Ryan Blethen, Brier Dudley, Mark Higgins, Jonathan Martin, Thanh Tan, BlancaTorres, William K. Blethen (emeritus) and Robert C. Blethen (emeritus).
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