The Status of Earthquake Early Warning around the World: An Introductory Overview
Abstract
The term "earthquake early warning" (EEW) is used to describe real-time earthquake information systems that have the potential to provide warning prior to significant ground shaking. This is possible by rapidly detecting the energy radiating from an earthquake rupture and estimating the resulting ground shaking that will occur later in time either at the same location or some other location. Warning times range from a few seconds to a little more than a minute and are primarily a function of the distance of the user from the earthquake epicenter. The concept has been around for as long as we have had electric communications (e.g., Cooper 1868), but it is only in the last two decades that the necessary instrumentation and methodologies have been developed (e.g., Nakamura 1988; Espinosa-Aranda et al. 1995). The last five years in particular have seen a rapid acceleration in the development and implementation of EEW, fueled by a combination of seismic network expansion, methodological development, and awareness of the increasing threat posed by earthquakes paired with desire by the seismological community to reduce risk.
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© 2009 Seismological Society of America. The progress made toward EEW implementation around the world is only possible thanks to the willingness of researchers in the field to openly share their research and develop both the conceptual and technical basis for EEW. We wish to acknowledge this community. We also wish to thank the editor of Seismological Research Letters, Luciana Astiz, for her assistance in preparing this special issue. Research supported by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior, under USGS award number 06HQAG0147. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government. This is Berkeley Seismological Laboratory contribution number 09-16. Authors legend: 1 University of California, Berkeley 2 University of Naples (Italy 3 Japan Meteorological Agency 4 California Institute of TechnologyAttached Files
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