Important Events and Recent News About ShakeAlert
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2019
- 1/25: New system to give Californians time to get ready for earthquake (San Jose Mercury News, B. Bedford)
- 2/28: What if we had earthquake early warning during the Nisqually earthquake? (WA Emergency Management Division)
- 2/28: The Big One: Your Survival Guide (2/28 Episode The Lessons)
2018
- 2/8: If The Big One Hits Soon, We Won’t Have Any Warning – Here’s Why (Newsweek, M. Bartles)
- 9/20: Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) National Test
- 10/1: The $38 Million Earthquake Alert System Can Buy the West Coast Precious Seconds (Bloomberg, A. Popescu)
- 10/11: Earthquake warning system will come with some false alarms and missed alerts (L.A. Times, R. Lin)
2017
2016
- 9/29: California Earthquake Early Warning system moves forward
- 8/15: USGS Awards $3.7 Million to Advance the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System
- 6/30: State of California budgets $10 million for earthquake early warning
- 5/16: California Governor Jerry Brown seeks to beef up California’s earthquake early warning system (Sanden Totten, KPCC)
- 3/21: Nearly nine out of ten California voters support Earthquake Early Warning System
- 2/5: CA Legislators Hill, Gray & Hertzberg to introduce bill, $23M for Earthquake Early Warning System
- 2/2: ShakeAlert System featured in a White House Earthquake Resilience Summit
- 2/1: A next-generation ShakeAlert System has been released. This “production prototype” system will allow selected users to develop and deploy pilot implementations that are triggered by ShakeAlert warnings
2015
- 12/18: Congress approves $8.2 million for ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system
- 9/1: Vital seconds: The journey toward earthquake early warning for all (Earth Magazine)
- 7/30: USGS Awards $4 Million to Support Earthquake Early Warning System (Press Release)
- 3/25: More than 30 Congress members urge $16 million for earthquake early warning system (News link)
- 2/4: White House wants $5 million for earthquake early warning system (News link)
2014
- 12/15: Congress approves $5 million to launch the ShakeAlert System (News Link)
- 9/8: OpEd Time to build a quake early-warning system for California: Dianne Feinstein and Adam Schiff (link)
- 9/4: LA Times – Quake alerts’ success spurs effort to complete early-warning system (News link)
- 9/3: 3rd International Earthquake Early Warning Conference (Video report)
- 3/1: LA Daily News OpEd on value of EEW (News link)
- 3/1: San Franisco Chronicle, California quake warning system works, but it needs funding (News link)
2013
- September, 2013: California Governor Jerry Brown signs EEW bill (Press release)
- August, 2013: Santa Cruz Sentinal OpEd: Quake alerts worth the money (News Link)
- April, 2013: City of Los Angeles awards Caltech $3.9M to upgrade earthquake network for EEW. (News link)
- March 2013: LA Times OpEd, Quake sensors’ success shows their value for California: Opinion (News link)
- January, 2013: Calif. State Senator Alex Padilla introduces bill to build EEW system in California. (News link)
2012
- August, 2012: BART activates earthquake early warning system (News link)
- January, 2012: Selected beta users begin receiving ShakeAlert messages.
2011
- December, 2011: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation award $6M grant to universities for EEW. (News link)
- April, 2011: Seconds before the big one by Richard Allen, published in Scientific American. (Download pdf)
- March, 2011: Japanese EEW system warns millions before strong shaking in M9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. (Link)
2009
- August, 2009: Phase I R&D project is completed and Phase II demonstration begins. (News link)
2008
- November, 2008: Do you want a 20-second warning? San Francisco Magazine by Vance. (Download pdf)
- October, 2008: At First Jolt: Will we have warnings for the next big earthquake? by Richard Allen, published in Geotimes/EARTH (Download pdf)
- May, 2008: Earthquake early warning systems: an investment that pays off in seconds by Georgia Cua, published in Natural Hazards Observer. (Download pdf)
2006
- August, 2006: USGS funded Phase I R&D effort begins.