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Ferndale earthquake: 3 million received early [Ten Seconds] warning from state system
ktla ^ | Travis Schlepp

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 ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: cover; drop; earthquake; holdon; quake; temblor; warning

1 posted on 12/21/2022 4:58:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

At 2:40 am I wonder how many were awake (or sober) enough to respond?


2 posted on 12/21/2022 4:59:52 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation
At 2:40 am I wonder how many were awake (or sober) enough to respond?

Or had their phones on?

3 posted on 12/21/2022 5:01:00 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: nascarnation

Just enough time to maybe think is that the phone ringing.


4 posted on 12/21/2022 5:04:18 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: BenLurkin
ALERT! ALERT!

You Have Ten Seconds To Get You Affairs In Order, Citizen!

Have A Nice Day.

5 posted on 12/21/2022 5:06:51 PM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: BenLurkin

Pretty remarkable. They didn’t get into the mechanics of it but, how can they tell it will be a good sized shaker?


6 posted on 12/21/2022 5:09:34 PM PST by pfflier
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To: BenLurkin

DUCK AND COVER!


7 posted on 12/21/2022 6:13:39 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d use some custom notification tone for this app, like screaming. 😅🤣


8 posted on 12/21/2022 6:39:31 PM PST by catbertz
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To: catbertz
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.

9 posted on 12/21/2022 7:53:25 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: BenLurkin

Ha, well, I never received that, but what’s ten seconds warning at 0234 am?


10 posted on 12/21/2022 8:50:59 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Karliner

I slept through a tornado in and RV once. Wouldn’t even notice a warning the way I sleep or used to.


11 posted on 12/22/2022 5:09:56 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: oldasrocks
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...

12 posted on 12/22/2022 5:32:47 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: oldasrocks

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.


13 posted on 12/22/2022 7:57:45 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: BenLurkin

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


14 posted on 01/02/2023 7:41:46 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

What is a quake prediction firm?


15 posted on 01/02/2023 8:12:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Research company that predicts quakes.

Quakeprediction.com if I remember correctly


16 posted on 01/02/2023 9:00:09 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Karliner

You live in or near Ferndale?


17 posted on 01/07/2023 1:45:28 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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