Israeli Earthquake Early-Warning System for the Big One!
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November 26, 2005
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Experts Call for Earthquake Early-Warning System
By Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent
November 25, 2005
When Israel is struck by a powerful earthquake – and the experts are unable to predict when it could happen – it is highly likely that numerous buildings will collapse.
However, it is possible that a short-term warning system will enable some of the people living in those buildings to escape in time, or to find shelter in protected places. Israeli geologists are now working to set up a tremor monitoring system, which may also prevent the collapse of vital infrastructure and emergency systems.
The Israeli Geological Institute in the Infrastructure Ministry and a number of experts are trying to set up an early warning system for earthquakes together with the Geophysical Institute and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), which is capable of processing data at high speed.
A similar system is already in operation
in several places prone to earthquakes such as Mexico, Japan and Turkey.
Dr. D an W
achs, a former director in the Geological Institute, says the new system is based on seismographs.
When there is a tremor, these monitoring instruments transmit information by radio waves to a data processing center, which sends the alert to instruments in various places.
These instruments can broadcast a warning, like a siren or an alarm, or automatically shut down vital systems to prevent damage during the quake.
When a tremor occurs, it generates seismic waves that are not destructive but are picked up by the sensors at the epicenter. The waves of destruction move more slowly and arrive later.
“The system can send out a 10- to 60-second warning in large population centers, from the moment the tremor occurs to the beginning of damage to buildings, according to the distance from the quake epicenter,” says Wachs.
A short-term alert would enable residents to move to a protected area in houses or to get into stairwells.
Residents of lower floors would be able to exit the building. The alert would trigger a halt in power, trains, gas mains and production processes in plants with dangerous substances.
The Airports Authority could stop take-offs and landings, and traffic lights would prevent cars from going on bridges.
Officials in the Geological Institute, run by Dr.
Binyamin Begin, and in the Earth Sciences Administration in the Infrastructure Ministry, agree with Wachs
and believe that a warning system is vital in the preparation for earthquakes.
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