AGU session S07: Earthquake Early Warning Capabilities and Delivery Around the World

Message forwarded at request of Richard Allen:

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring to your attention the following AGU Fall Meeting session on earthquake alerting around the world. The meeting will be held December 13-17, 2011 in San Francisco. Note the new, earlier submission deadline of August 4 (23:59 EDT).

Abstracts can be submitted here: http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com/

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S07: Earthquake Early Warning Capabilities and Delivery Around the World

Description: Systems to issue a warning to those in harm’s way after detecting earthquakes and estimating the shaking hazard have advanced rapidly in the last ten years. Many algorithms have been implemented on real-time geophysical networks for testing, and in some cases delivery, of earthquake alerts. Development and testing is ongoing in Asia, Europe and the Americas. During the 2011 M9 Tohoku-oki earthquake, warning was successfully delivered to people in the Tohoku region through TV, radio, cellphones and the internet. In this session we invite contributions to ongoing algorithm potential, development, and the results of real-time testing around the world. We also invite presentations regarding the lessons of successful and unsuccessful warnings.

For more information please contact one of the conveners:

Richard Allen, UC Berkeley - rallen@berkeley.edu
Keiji Doi, Japan Meteorological Agency - keijidoi@met.kishou.go.jp
Thomas Heaton, Caltech - heaton@caltech.edu
John Vidale, Univeristy of Washington - vidale@uw.edu