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Earthquake Stupidity #2 -- Early warning systems

Source info:

Author: Harold Asmis
Date: 2015-08-14 20:16:00
Blog: Ontario-geofish
URL: http://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2015/08/earthquake-stupidity-2-early-warning.html

Summary:

Early warning systems are a seismologist's wet dream.  Remember that these guys can't do math, and have no concept how shaking damages things.  All they know is that these systems bring in lots of money, and they lobby the politicians relentlessly.  Any money for this is taken out of strong ground motion recording. They work like this:  In an ideal world, you have a tiny fault rupture, at a

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concept, damages things, Early warning systems, Earthquake Stupidity, guys, ideal world, math, money, politicians, seismologist, strong ground motion, tiny fault rupture

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