Posted on 12/21/2022 4:58:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
The 6.4 magnitude earthquake was reported around 2:40 a.m. about eight miles southwest of Ferndale in Humboldt County.
For millions of people near the epicenter, an alert was sent out to their phones up to 10 seconds prior the dramatic shaking.
The alert notification reads “drop, cover, and hold on.”
It was sent out to an estimated 3 million Android phone users automatically through a partnership between California and Google. A quarter-million people received the warning through the MyShake app, a state-sponsored app developed by UC Berkeley that is available for download in the Android and iOS app stores.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
At 2:40 am I wonder how many were awake (or sober) enough to respond?
Or had their phones on?
Just enough time to maybe think is that the phone ringing.
You Have Ten Seconds To Get You Affairs In Order, Citizen!
Have A Nice Day.
Pretty remarkable. They didn’t get into the mechanics of it but, how can they tell it will be a good sized shaker?
DUCK AND COVER!
I’d use some custom notification tone for this app, like screaming. 😅🤣
Lol! In a way they do, I've had a least a couple of those earthquake alerts on my phone accompanied by a loud buzzing sound, much like the EAS alert on TV and radio. Unfortunately, my alerts arrived after the shaking had stopped.
Ha, well, I never received that, but what’s ten seconds warning at 0234 am?
I slept through a tornado in and RV once. Wouldn’t even notice a warning the way I sleep or used to.
If you were in Kansas you could have woken up in Oz...
Well, I woke up, rode out the shaking. Picked a few things up in the refrigerator, and went back to sleep. Place was trashed but no reason to clean up trash at 0-dark-thirty.
I don’t see what ten seconds would have made much a difference.
Quake prediction firm says “signal just hit”
After two recent quakes in Northern CA there is a prediction for imminent (!/02 - 1/03) 7.0 quake SF to LA
What is a quake prediction firm?
Research company that predicts quakes.
Quakeprediction.com if I remember correctly
You live in or near Ferndale?
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