How Low Should We Alert? Quantifying Intensity Threshold Alerting Strategies for Earthquake Early Warning in the United States

How Low Should We Alert? Quantifying Intensity Threshold Alerting Strategies for Earthquake Early Warning in the United States

Abstract We use a suite of historical earthquakes to quantitatively determine earthquake early warning (EEW) alert threshold strategies for a range of shaking intensity targets for EEW along the United States West Coast. The current method for calculating alert regions for the ShakeAlert EEW System...

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Main Authors: Jessie K. Saunders, Sarah E. Minson, Annemarie S. Baltay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-03-01
Series:Earth's Future
Subjects:
Earthquake Early Warning
ShakeAlert system
modified Mercalli Intensity
alerting strategies
warning systems
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002515

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https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002515

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