ShakeAlertLA - California’s earthquake early warning system

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Los Angeles is a city of Angels, and of earthquakes. Deadly earthquakes in 1933, 1971 and 1994 have also made it a pioneer in earthquake protection – for example with tough engineering standards to save buildings. Since 2013, with the help of scientists at the US Geological Survey, the city has been developing a resilience plan which culminated in the release of an app that should give residents precious seconds of warning when an earthquake starts. Roland Pease meets the scientists, the Mayor and the officials making the system work. Picture: An apartment after the Northridge earthquake in 1994 Credit: Getty Images

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0:30.7	I'm proud to announce that, and it's been live so we hit the promise of December 31st
0:36.8	the nation's first early warning app for earthquakes Shake Alert LA now live and available to the general public.
0:45.5	LA is the first city to be able to have this capacity and to share that throughout
0:49.8	the Los Angeles area. A press conference in January in LA the city of Angels of
0:54.7	earthquakes and of a grand earthquake resilience plan. It will save lives by
0:59.2	giving precious seconds to you and to your family. The launch of Shake LA, Los Angeles, is stronger and we believe
1:05.2	it will make Angelino safer.
1:06.6	I'm Roland Peas and on this edition of Discovery from the BBC, I'm looking into the science and
1:11.0	benefits of Earthquake Early Warning and the Shake Alert LA
1:15.0	app which sounds like this.
1:17.0	When you receive an alert it will look and sound like this.
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