For California, an Earthquake Early Warning System Is Up and Running

autospa writes "In California's Coachella Valley around Palm Springs, a state-of-the-art, first-in-the-world earthquake early warning system in now installed and operational. Twelve locations are now in place with 120 sites planned, all meant to detect an earthquake and give people a chance to get under a table, or in the case of a fire station, get the engines outside of the building."

Re:How do they know it works?

[Anonymous Coward]

So, barring an actual earthquake, how do they know this thing works?

They just pick up the sensor, shake it really hard, and listen for alarms.

Re:And

[olsmeister]

I'm sure they understand that Windows are one of the first things to go during an earthquake, and you don't want to be anywhere around them.

Re:It uses video cameras and cats

[Dunbal]

That's what Schroedinger's box is for. The really weird ones don't survive.