Ask a Seismologist: What are Your Earthquake Questions?

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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When last week’s 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit near San Jose, more than two million people received an alert — up to 19 seconds before they felt shaking. But how do earthquake early warning systems work, exactly? And what should we do when we get an alert? From how to “drop, cover, and hold on” to how to evaluate your home’s seismic resiliency, we’ll answer your earthquake questions with seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones. And we’ll hear about how California has been — and should be — prepared for earthquakes big and small. Resource(s) mentioned on air: "Brace + Bolt" grant program for California homeowners Guests: Dr. Lucy Jones, research associate Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; author, "The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)"; founder, Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.6	From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.
1:04.0	I'm Mina Kim.
1:05.8	When last week's 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit near San Jose, more than 2 million people received an alert,
1:12.2	several seconds before they felt shaking.
1:15.0	So what should we do when we get an alert, and how do earthquake early warning systems work?
1:19.7	Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones is here to answer all your earthquake questions.
1:24.1	We'll also learn what California is and should be doing to prepare for earthquakes big and small.
1:30.0	And we want to hear from you.
1:31.5	Have you gotten an earthquake early warning alert?
1:34.0	What did you do?
1:35.2	Join us. I'm Mina Kim. Welcome to Forum. Earthquakes loom large in California. The San Andreas fault, which stretches some 750 miles through much the length of the state, produced the devastating 1906 San Francisco and the
2:02.1	89 Loma Prieta quakes, and a hidden fault produced the destructive 94 Northridge quake,
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