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UC Berkeley scientist: ShakeAlert gave San Francisco seconds of warning; officials press for public rollout
Summary
Dr. Richard Allen told the council ShakeAlert detected the Napa quake and delivered about 7–8 seconds of warning in the Bay Area; he said the California portion would cost about $80 million and the West Coast system about $120 million and urged political support to make the system public.
Dr. Richard Allen of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory told the Disaster Council that the demonstration ShakeAlert earthquake early-warning system successfully detected the South Napa event and delivered seconds of warning to the Bay Area.
Allen described the mechanism of earthquake early warning—detecting the quake’s start,…
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