The population from California has a new tool for get prepared Y prevent a disaster. From now on available a application from mobile that will send a seismic alert every time you anticipate that a tremor could break out in a short time.
According to the newspaper Los Angeles Times, the application is called QuakeAlertUSA, and allows users to choose the intensity of the tremors they want to receive in the alerts.
The company Early Warning Labs, based in Santa Monica, West of The Angels, developed this service, which sends an alert to the person's cell every time detect a tremor, and the user can select whether to receive alerts only of light, moderate or larger earthquakes. The lighter snow sends alerts in case of tremors "level 3", What are they perceptible, until the earthquakes greater than 4.5 degrees.
The biggest advantage is that the alert is sent before it happens the earthquake, for give the user time of taking precautions or Become safe.
Other applications already existed before, such as the United States Geological Survey, Shakelert, or that of the city of Los Angeles, Shake Alert, announced by the mayor of the city at the beginning of last year, in January 2019.
For its part, the new QuakeAlertUSA app gives more selection options and also the advantage of having time, even if they are only seconds, before the tremor.
"Our main objective is to save lives," he told the media Josh Bashioum, founder of Early Warning Labs.
Just a few weeks ago, a 4.6 magnitude earthquake was felt in the Desert Mojave, and users of the new App since then could receive the alert, especially those who were located near Death valley.
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