The Utah State Legislature is being asked to spend $150,000 to study whether the state could benefit from new technology that could alert people of an earthquake about to hit.
"It gives us time — even if it’s 10 seconds — it gives us time to shut things off and make it more secure and save lives," Sen. Jani Iwamoto, D-Holladay, told FOX 13 News in an interview Friday.
The system uses a network of sensors to pick up seismic activity and broadcast alerts about an event about to hit a population area, similar to an AMBER Alert. The more notice, the more safety measures can be taken. Trains can be stopped, people can take cover. "It is a different situation," said Dr. Keith Koper, a seismologist with the University of Utah."There’s different faults, there’s different rocks, so what we’re essentially advocating for is a feasibility study."
"People always say was that the big one? It wasn’t the big one," said Utah State Geologist Dr. Bill Keach."That was a 5.7. If we had a 6.0, a 6.1, that would have been twice the magnitude. Twice the amount of damage that would have been released. This is kind of a wake up call, but not necessarily a big one."
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