2009 Fall AGU Special Session S06: Innovations and Advances in Earthquake Early Warning Systems Around the World

Announcement of a Fall AGU session forwarded from Maren Boese, Caltech:

Dear colleague,

Our apologies if this announcement reaches you more than once. We would like to draw your attention to a special session on earthquake early warning at the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting and invite you to submit an electronic abstract until September 3rd, 2009, at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/.

Session description:

S06 Innovations and Advances in Earthquake Early Warning Systems Around the World

Earthquake early warning systems provide rapid earthquake detection and notification prior to significant ground shaking. Operational warning systems in Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, and Romania now provide seconds to tens of seconds of warning prior to damaging shaking. New systems are also being evaluated and tested in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In this session, we invite scientists, engineers, and social scientists working on all aspects of earthquake early warning to share perspectives, techniques, and lessons learned. We particularly encourage contributions involving the following topics: 1) quantifying the performance of systems in terms of rates of correct, false, and missed alarms, 2) real-time characterization of rupture finiteness, 3) the potential for including real-time GPS data in earthquake early warning, and 4) cost-benefit analysis and/or examples of user applications of earthquake early warning.

Please let us know if you have any questions. We are looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

Conveners: Georgia Cua (georgia.cua@sed.ethz.ch) and Maren Boese (mboese@caltech.edu)