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LA High School Students Will Help Test The Region’s New Earthquake Early Warning System
Although we’re not 99.9% sure when an earthquake will strike in Los Angeles, an earthquake early warning system would help the city take additional precautions and almost certainly save lives. A group of high school students is partnering with the USGS to test how it might work.
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Monster Machines: NASA’s Moon-Bound Geology Lab That Never Quite Got Off The Ground
The rigour of operating outside the atmosphere has often led to rather outlandish NASA vehicle designs, but few have been more alien than this mobile lunar field laboratory from the heyday of the Space Age. Shame it never actually made it past New Mexico.
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Earthquake Early Warning Systems Save Lives, So Why Doesn’t The US Have One?
Here’s something you might not know about the 6.4 magnitude earthquake near the Pacific Coast of Mexico on May 8: By the time it hit Mexico City, 270km away, people there already knew it was coming. They were ready — thanks to their advanced warning system. So why doesn’t the US have one?
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Boffins Set To Shake Down Google’s Earthquake Warning System
You don’t see earthquakes coming as you would with, say, a hurricane. But that may soon change with recent advancements to a “groundbreaking” early warning system developed, in part, by Google’s philanthropic arm.