MyShake early earthquake warning system successfully alerted three million Californians including thousands in Bay Area before the 6.4 quake struck Humboldt County, as users were instructed to 'drop, cover and hold on.'
MyShake early earthquake warning system successfully alerted three million Californians before the 6.4 quake struck Humboldt County.The Ferndale earthquake was a big "success" for California's earthquake early warning system. Three million Californians got an alert. At 2:34 a.m., hundreds of thousands of Bay area residents were jolted out of bed by an earthquake alert on their cell phone.
"We've sent over 65 or 70 alerts to various places in California, but this is the biggest alert we've sent out so far," Richard Allen, the director of the UC Berkeley seismology lab said. "This alert went out to 270,000 users of the the MyShake app last night. The alerts are only sent to people we expect to feel shaking intensity three or greater level shaking in an earthquake where we expect the magnitude to be greater than 4.5.
The amount of warning depends on how far away you are from the epicenter. If you're close, maybe you get only one second of warning. If you are further away like Monday night in the Bay Area, you could have a full minute before you feel the shaking. Plenty of people felt it according to USGS, from San Jose to Medford, Oregon.
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