Earthquake Warning System 'Shake Alert' Proves To Be Success

A new system called “Shake Alert” warned about 21,000 people near Santa Rosa, California, to seek cover with instruction to do so after a 4.4 magnitude quake hit the area. NBC News’ Joshua Johnson is joined by Dr. Robert de Groot to discus how the systems works and what is next for it.
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[@wolfco47]

I live in Japan and have access to a number of phone apps that work in this way. The one I currently use sends a notice as soon as detection is triggered with the time attached to the notice. Then I get another 'corrected' notice if something about the warning is inaccurate. The only time I've gotten a concurrent warning is when the earthquake happened at my location. It always sends the notices ASAP. And, there is a setting which overrides any phone silencing for larger earthquakes. If the magnitude is significant, my phone lights up, beeps very loudly, and vibrates no matter what mode it is in.

[@dashaalisabianca777cachtic3]

I'm so sorry Japan gets so many earthquakes

[@paulettemart]

Can you share with me the name of the apps so I can download too?

[@helenpauls1496]

@@paulettemart Just type earthquake alerts and there are lots to choose from.

[@wolfco47]

@@paulettemart The earthquake app I am using at the moment is called NERV. I am not sure if this app is operational for anywhere outside of Japan.

[@ryanreedgibson]

Cool system. You also have a new tsunami early warning system too?

[@asicdathens]

Japanese have similar system more than 20 years. It is integrated into the transportation system so that bullet trains automatically stop. TV's have circuitry that turn on automatically to display warnings. Gas lines shut automatically etc.

[@lilmaxAlarcxn]

The japnese system does cover the planet does it? this does..

[@xmarine73]

@@lilmaxAlarcxn the Japanese system has been better for 20 years. Still might be. All they need to know about is Japan and the immediate geography surrounding Japan.

[@lilmaxAlarcxn]

@@xmarine73 What I'm saying is anyone including Japan can have an early warning system bc of a dedicated network of students scientists and the sensors/ data provided by the USGS among others.

[@xmarine73]

@@lilmaxAlarcxn the "among others" bit is the key here. The USGS is a US organization that other non-US organizations participate with. Many countries on the planet have their own version of "geologic survey" and monitor tectonic shifts, volcanic activity, and the like in their particular regions. With that said, Japan has a TON of early warning organizations for a variety of natural disasters. Many of which don't rely on anything the United States is doing.

[@lilmaxAlarcxn]

@@xmarine73 Sir you are missing the point without cooperation all systems are dead in the water. 🙂

[@RejectedJedi]

I live in Sonoma county where Santa Rosa is and I got the alert while cooking dinner. I was able to collect all family members to the safest place in the house and then even question if we will feel the shake but then we did. Very helpful. Thank you.

[@dashaalisabianca777cachtic3]

I'm in silicon valley

[@Noct343]

@@dashaalisabianca777cachtic3 I dont think anyone asked you hun, now shut up.

[@JasonBoyce]

wow that's wild, never thought we would be able to predict this kind of thing

[@Aaron25thinfantry]

This sounds like a paid review 😂

[@downundabrotha]

How much time did you have before it hit?

[@YTfinfal]

Although I was about half a mile away from the epicenter, at the SRJC, the alert system was almost instantly sent the moment we felt shaking which was quite impressive, I had my girlfriend and her brother get the text alerts in the next town over in Rohnert Park with a lot more time to react to the incoming quake. Very cool and very important information technology that can help save lives and infrastructure!

[@tommurphy4307]

californians often sleep thru a 4.4 or 5.1 quake- lets see how it works in a MAJOR earthquake event. NBC FAKE NEWS CLICK BAIT.

[@michaelhudecek2778]

Thank God!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@plawson8577]

My Mom and Stepdad honeymooned in Rohnert Park Back in 1987!

[@peace.404]

That was crazy getting an alert just before it hit. They never announced this technology. It was a total surreal moment. I’m in Sonoma county, about 1/2 hr away from Santa Rosa.

[@tommurphy4307]

maybe it will work when you get a REAL earthquake.

[@marcsenteney3160]

This is a great thing to have and use. However the photos shown in this report are not from the earthquake in Santa Rosa. Nor was it the quake large enough to do that damage.

[@asharon956]

That's right it's Northridge Earthquake Jan 17th 1994. I was driving motorhome you see, which was after road crew drove them to the back as trucker and I were sitting few feet from going off end when it colllasped, was surprised after so long to see photo again, it literally bounced on tires side to side almost rolled over . USGS has more photos where we're actually on the edge. Just search Northridge Earthquake I-5, photos

[@katdog221]

I’m glad they have an early warning system even if it’s only a few seconds. It saved lives. I believe in time the warning system will be improved increasing warning times.

[@samsanimationcorner3820]

That's how tornado early warning started. It was only a minute or two at first, but it kept improving.

[@toordog1753]

It will get better, this was the first version of it. Next we're adding cameras to measure movement.

[@samsanimationcorner3820]

@@toordog1753 that's awesome 👍

[@dave8599]

No it did not save lives.

[@urband10]

4.4? I don't event bother to get-up from my chair with that low earthquake

[@itsicandy]

Seems like all this could have been summarized with "it works like a tornado warning" lol

[@Punisher6791]

If a earthquake leads to a Volcanic eruption is it called shake n bake?

[@W3Electronics]

Lollll STOOOOPPPPP

[@kjpcgaming9296]

That's pretty funny :D (warning this person overstates the totally obvious)

[@jeremyloera3227]

HA!!!😂

[@allensandven0]

Hahaha….. I new it .. some warped individual was chuckling as I was thinking why do I want to say shake and bake at such a serious moment like it was a SNL SKIT with Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin ….. and I only had to scroll down 15 or so comments 😂 😮 edit 22 comments not counting under this one

[@saltpepperketchup7082]

The Southpark gang learned the "duck and cover" drill when they were in danger of volcano eruption. 🤣

[@philiprobinson3160]

What do the collapsed roadway pictures have to do with the earthquake in Santa Rosa other than click bait? Did "Shake Alert" help anyone in that scenario? I live in Santa Rosa and got that alert after the earthquake. Are the pictures of the collapsed roadway even from an earthquake? I know they are not from the Santa Rosa area. Please at least make an attempt at credibility!

[@JB-dk4cm]

It's just a picture to show what damages earthquake can do.Maybe you recieved it late because you are not one of a millions people who always on the screen😄

[@angelicastrachan]

The picture of the collapsed roadway was taken from the 1994 Northridge Los Angeles earthquake

[@asharon956]

I was driving the motorhome on the span. Not much you can do when driving but hit your brakes. My motorhome almost rolled over, photo posted was AFTER Cal Tran workers drove out rigs back across solid supports as trucker and I was literally on the front of highway within feet of going off end. They had to take them off with crane 3 days later. More photos on USGS Northridge CA.

[@Goldenhawk583]

@@JB-dk4cm So if you are not always on screen, you dont get alarms? I am pretty sure thats not how alarms work. Do you sit in bed and look at your alarm, to be sure not to miss it going off?

[@saltpepperketchup7082]

@@JB-dk4cm well that's stupid to show irrelevant pictures of damage and also making statements that the alert "saved lives". I was put under the impression that the Santa Rosa quake that they were talking about actually broke roads and saved people from peril.. I did not expect my local news source to feed me lies.

[@leiatyndall8648]

I like Dutchsinse, on YT & Twitch. His warnings are up to 7-10 days out. Watching him, you'll soon learn abt Deep quakes leading to Larger (1-2 magnitudes larger) shallower quakes; fulcrum points; equidistant spacing; seismic energy travelling across the Pacific to So/Central America from around Australia/New Zealand, & more, like how to determine expected magnitudes. He strives to get his forecasts w/in abt 200 mi., which is pretty small of an area, considering. I've been following him abt 8 yrs now. Worthwhile.

[@nathanegbert977]

Dutchsinse covers every possible prediction and then claims success when one comes true. That is of course when he isn't ranting about being targeted by the USGS... as if they care about some crackerjack scientist who throws out just enough big words to dupe uneducated viewers into believing he has somehow found all the answers in spite of a massive government conspiracy to hide the inner workings of the planet.

[@robertl4824]

FYI: P waves propagate through the Earth with a speed of about 15,000 miles per hour and are the first waves to cause vibration of a building. S waves arrive next and cause a structure to vibrate from side to side. They are the most damaging waves, because buildings are more easily damaged from horizontal motion than from vertical motion. P waves are not always felt even.

[@robertI153]

Whats the highway photo for? Clickbait?

[@SunsetBoulevard111]

Dutchsinse channel has the best earthquake alert system.

[@elidee2914]

I live in Mexico city we have the earthquake alert since 20 years ago. I can not believe US has not one.

[@kimmontenegro2258]

When I reached out to my friends in Mexico City after the last big one a few years ago, that was when I learned this. Mind boggling how it's 'new' out in the States.

[@XSemperIdem5]

@@kimmontenegro2258 I believe it's because they weren't given the budget to fully develop and implement it until embarrassingly late. I remember Dr. Lucy Jones mentioning this. It's ridiculous that they've been talking about "the big one" for my entire life yet weren't giving this a priority.

[@kerrymarris4260]

It's because the US government is way more corrupted than the average person knows. And the elites or cooperate overlords have been working on depopulation for a lot longer than earth quake detections services

[@joedellinger9437]

We have a LOT of lawyers here!

[@Tidestrider]

Unfortunately in the US, government buildings are given priority for seismic upgrades, and they are reluctant to spend any money on earthquake preparedness. We are taught drills but what good is sitting under a table when the building is going to collapse on top of you? In fact, I'm not even sure this was funded by the US, but instead by the universities that developed the technology, and phone providers were the ones who decided to implement the data and turn it into warning systems. I've always envied the warning systems and I know the US could do so much better if it was something they cared more about.

[@hidalgoalejandro]

a system like that works all over Mexico pacific coast for some years now amd it really saves lives. actually there has been drills on 9-19 to remember the big quake of 1985 and turns out that there has been big quakes some hours after the sym. exactly the same day ...crazy huh?

[@MexicanTeTe]

It was on the same day as both the 1985 earthquake and the 2017 earthquake, September 19th.

[@720069mf]

The Northridge 6.7 quake happened jan. 17 1994 at @4:30 am, one year later same date and @ the same time Kobe Japan had a 6.9 quake.

[@Jen-fr4sd]

I heard about that. I can understand why people would be superstitious about it, even if geologists say that it is coincidental. Just too much and scary.

[@MiguelLuna1]

México City has had seismic alerts since over 20 years ago. It really makes the difference.

[@601salsa]

This should be a global thing. Along with tsunami alerts and other disaster alerts.

[@DemPilafian]

The news reporter gave a better explanation of the Shake Alert system than the expert did.

[@DemPilafian]

@Sonomacats The expert was trying way too hard to *dumb it down.* It felt like he was delivering a pitch for a funding grant rather than educating the public.

[@davidargiro8306]

I have the app as well as one that is under the name 'Earthquake Network'. I live in L.A. and as much as I want to give props to the Shake Alert, I recommend Earthquake Network to those living in any area prone to quakes. I have yet to hear anything from Shake Alert while the Earthquake Network app has given me several heads up moments. I have the settings on each that I should be notified but Shake Alert doesn't seem to want to give notice unless it is a sizeable quake or in my backyard. I disagree with this formst because people need to become familiar with the sound so that the few seconds they get are used the best way possible. If they are trying to figure out what the sound is, they won't get that second or two that means a heck of a lot of difference. For me, that sound means i know it is coming and therefore i am ahead of anyone that doesnt have it or is wondering what the sound is that they aren't used to. And no, I haven't become complacent or lazy when i hear the alarm on Earthquake Network. Each tkme it has gone off, I am notifying others around me as I prepare for shaking. So, hopefully Shake Alert will become a little more liberal and allow a smaller quake in the 3 range or a little farther away than our county line. It could save a life. Yes, I gave this feedback to Shake Alert.

[@atthecrosshealing]

Earthquake network is that for la city only? My shake alert has yet to even work.

[@atthecrosshealing]

Also what’s the cost really because it shows $.99 to get the app. Subscription lists 10k to 100k??! Is that for real?

[@margaretphenicie4522]

That's sylmar near Pasadena. It was 4.4 here. Try loma preita. 1989. Try 7.3 in yucca valley!

[@greengold7648]

Shake Alert sensors are receiving compression waves that occur seconds before the actual physical quake. Animals of all kinds the world over including dogs and cats are highly sensitive to these compression waves. Dogs will bark hysterically. Dogs are great sensors of incoming seismic action in the home or office if people are educated on the proper interpretation of the barking and appropriate response to protect each other.

[@saltpepperketchup7082]

My dogs have never barked or acted strange. Not even during the Loma Prieta.

[@samuels1123]

another system is to communicate with something faster than an earthquake, and broadcast to a given region, maybe give a countdown based on distance

[@crashrethati5458]

Dutchsinse!

[@BearMeat4Dinner]

Waving hi from SF ! Family has been in the same house for 83 years. Anytime anything hits I gotta inspect the whole house. 4 levels.

[@TheShooteR28]

Who puts their fingers in their ears from thunder? Usually it's a surprised/jump scare reaction when thunder rumbles 🫤

[@ravenoctober9936]

Plenty of people do? If you notice the lighting anyway. I do especially because im very sensitive to sound. Again if i see the light from the lightning. I find it hard to believe you've NEVER plugged your ears when its a thunder storm.

[@tada8092]

Living in California and notice of an earthquake is amazing.

[@tinayu4540]

Have had this on my Google Pixel phone for the last couple of years. It even showed up as a notification a few seconds before I felt it in Southern California. This should have been rolled out to everyone a while back, not just because I have a certain phone.

[@tlaloc9624]

everyone has it, it doesn't matter what phone you have, it's like the amber alerts

[@tinayu4540]

@@tlaloc9624 Yes, now everyone does, but not 3-4 years ago. It should have been rolled out a LONG time ago.

[@tlaloc9624]

@@tinayu4540 well we prob didn't have the tech, nor the funding for it till now

[@Emmanuel_Rivera1]

I remember when I was a kid in school, we would have to do the drills for what to do and we would get under our desks, cover our heads and wait till the testing was over.

[@saltpepperketchup7082]

@Emmanuel Tube. I learned the same drill of duck and cover, from the Southpark gang when they had danger of volcano eruption.

[@MamaPinks]

Nope, I live on the fault line in SR, and I didn't receive emergency warning until about 3 minutes AFTER the after shock😒. My bird warned me. She ended up getting thrown off the cage in that shaker. (She's ok)

[@adancer3592]

We have it here in Oregon I'm in a active earthquake zone and am doing something I said I'd never do live in a brick building ! So I'm not sure it's enough time to not be squished .

[@sebastianboone8395]

So a few seconds to get under cover but a few seconds to read and figure out what the phone is ringing for....

[@nha3920]

This is great.

[@Florida_man21]

Should be implemented in every phone

[@unedited2716]

THANKS FOR SHARING.SHAKE ALERT IS A GAME CHANGER GREAT JOB AND THANK YOU FOR SAVING US

[@joedellinger9437]

The warning time depends on the distance. In 1989 I was watching live TV doing split-screen news coverage with an on-the-scene reporter in Watsonville and two interviewers in the studio in San Francisco. I was halfway in between. Suddenly there was another aftershock of the Loma Prieta earthquake… with the cars in Watsonville visibly bouncing and the reporter clearly scared and excited. The people in San Francisco… “we don’t feel anything here”. Then after the event was over in Watsonville the shaking came to us and neither set of people on TV were feeling anything. Then, after the event was fully over for us, finally the shaking started in San Francisco and we could see objects in the news studio swaying. The reporters were clueless as to how slowly the earthquake waves moved. They did not understand what was happening. In the Loma Prieta earthquake most people died when a double decker highway structure connected to the East end of the bay bridge pancaked… the “Cypress structure”. I had driven through it the weekend before with an eminent Czech seismologist, and told him as we drove through it “this highway structure was built in the 1950’s to what was then considered good design, but we now know it will collapse in a large earthquake”. It needed spiral bracing added to the support pillars and was high on the list of projects to do. If I somehow knew a quite large Earthquake just happened way down the peninsula and knew the section of freeway over my head might be about to pancake down on me and crash down, and I had the warning time those people in the SF TV studio had, could I have stopped the car and run? I think yes! Gotten a kid out of a child seat too? Maybe?

[@user-jp4tl9zd8n]

Minnesota in 1992had a mild shake. We were calm

[@fuzzynavel4948]

Having gone through the 2014 quake in South Napa County, I was less than 3 miles from the epicenter. My home had damage and I lost a lot of items. I had significant trauma from this experience. When I got the alert from this recent quake...my whole being went into overdrive.not knowing what the magnitude was. I got under the table and about 10 seconds later the glasses in my hutch rattled. My point, if you're going to scare me to the point of me wetting myself.....it needs to be more than a little rattling. I like the thought/idea of sending the alert if its over a certain magnitude. But it would be helpful to know where it is centered and the magnitude for the folks that arent close to the epicenter included in the alert.

[@noahshields507]

I’d rather get an alert then nothing at all.. earthquakes are scary regardless lady

[@sydgraves8388]

I live in Santa Rosa we DID NOT GET AN ALERT!!! Until after FYI

[@tdogstewartski1062]

I’m guessing there are more than 21,000 in town…you must not have been one of them

[@elram2649]

I'm thinking you gotta download an app first so your cellphone's notified.

[@RejectedJedi]

I live in Sonoma county and got an alert 18 seconds before I felt it shake

[@dianaramirez6509]

I got the alert as the shaking started. It depends on where you were and yes some people did not get it

[@HiThisIsMine]

Cool, thanks for talking about everything about a warning system except for exactly how much warning we would get. No point of a public warning system if the alert is just a couple seconds.

[@spikeybunny6577]

A few seconds is enough to get away from windows, duck into a strong door jam, & protect your head from falling debris. Could it be better? Of course it could… but be happy with something rather than nothing.

[@HiThisIsMine]

@@spikeybunny6577 - Sorry but based on how humans respond to every day situations and previous earthquakes… I have to disagree with your take on this. In a scenario where this would be used, the average human brain can’t even comprehend what’s going on in a couple seconds. People already stand around for several seconds, grasping what’s going on when earthquakes hit. You would get an alert, likely already delayed.. that you are unfamiliar with… likely on your phone… your brain would have to first make sense of what’s happening and react to the alert by grabbing your phone, reading said alert, then realizing that said alert is just a a second away… then realizing you must take action. If it’s only “a couple seconds” warning (couple means 2)… you’ll likely already feel the quake by the time you understand what the warning is about.

[@spikeybunny6577]

@@HiThisIsMine you could be right but the way I see it, after growing up with earthquakes and using the alarm on my phone daily … I still think something is better than nothing. Hopefully it will allow people a few precious moments to be headed in the right direction for safety.

[@michaelhudecek2778]

Thank God for this technology! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@dashaalisabianca777cachtic3]

I'm in cali they keep mentioning how over due we are

[@flossyraven]

I'm glad they keep talking about it because it reminds us to stay prepared. Unfortunately for some reason many in California don't think another big one will hit.

[@davidargiro8306]

Last sizable quake in the Bay area was 1989 and in L.A., 1994. Who's next??

[@thrax1822]

I got the alert after the first quake before the first aftershock. I'm not saying that's a bad thing on shake alerts end because I was so close to the epicenter (1 mile away) I couldn't get the alert

[@1981cvalentine]

I felt the shaking and then the alert came on my phone seconds later.

[@atthecrosshealing]

You were probably at the epicenter. The further away you are the more warning time you get.

[@rum-ham]

I got the alert in SF probably 10 seconds before I felt a very tiny shake.

[@Jim-fe2xz]

What is the lead time? Telling you are having an earthquake when you're in the middle of it is useful how? "Let me stop and pull out my phone and read the message as my ceiling hits me in the head"? Well, it's good they're working on something but prediction sure would help.

[@denelson83]

Don't forget in Alaska, Robert.

[@LoriL010]

Wouldn't they feel the shake themselves at the same time the warning system does?

[@mikef1570]

If only I could have gotten these types of positive results with my shake weight. 😢

[@neoxyte]

Sleep mode

[@mikef1570]

@@neoxyte cool down spray.

[@mikef1570]

@Old Blue Witch 😂😂😂

[@rum-ham]

😂😂😂

[@castlebrookbooks1037]

My cat react to a coming quake in Santa Rosa several years ago. She went to her food bowl to eat but stopped short and meowed strangely. A few seconds later a strong jarring quake hit on the Rogers fault. Cats work well.

[@RekkaAlexiel]

We've had this... for many, many years in Japan. Why is this treated like a new sort of technology?

[@js6728]

Its quite easy to understand an areas threshold for being in risk of having a quake, the same cycles happen thousands of times each day, with more and more cycles happening each time. May be good for local information, to show what number you may be at risk in daily life. yw

[@charliebaby7065]

whats so amazing is ..... that not only is there actually an established system of protocols..... this is actually acknowledged, responded to, and acted upon/relayed to the public so incredibly fast.... but that local/national govt, have !any! involvement what so ever with ANYTHING acting so quickly. I'm completely amazed thats what i call a "technological success" !!!!!! . . . (me: the only one in the room clapping???)

[@scuro8847]

This kinda of topic dr. Robert sounds like Rick from Rick and morty

[@kingdoc3262]

Very good and congratulations. However I firmly believe that the best pre alert system probably comes from the animals, birds and insects. Why not study all of Mother Earth living Beings and you'll probably have a lot longer than a few seconds. This takes decreasing human Arrogance

[@ssonny7078]

Was this not in place a few years ago when they had the earthquake in Napa? I live in Solano county and it’s the only earthquake that I’ve felt without question in my 30 years here

[@robinhoogewerf6712]

I am De Groot MARVELous

[@chrisnoyd2058]

Well, I live down town, and my phone went off half way through. I definitely knew what it was, already. Alert did not work!!!!!

[@javirodriguez5617]

Like 2 seconds and then the shake but when I saw the alert ,,I thought it was a prank...jaja

[@danielhughes9556]

I live in Vacaville. 75 miles or so from Santa Rosa. My girlfriend's phone went off, but mine didn't. Still, pretty neat though.

[@lindapoore7608]

Good report

[@beambreaker]

Is this like a necklace with a button you push if you’ve fallen and can’t get up from a earthquake?

[@muma8207]

Were the images you show in this clip of damage from the Santa Rosa recent quake? I hadn't seen any of those images and I live here. Please clarify.

[@robertmarley8852]

Click bait

[@Eventwow]

I used to live in Santa Rosa from 1982-1993

[@shadowrider9421]

The big one is coming people be ready

[@AdaMakawee]

You never did say how to download the app. When I put it into Google Play I got about 16. Which one is it? I live in Washington state.

[@Kaitilyn122]

MyShake will work great for you!

[@craigbuchanan5294]

The dr Fauchi of geology

[@alksjda]

any alert to save lives is a good alert

[@sheetal3248]

Put the systems on alerts

[@kyriestrange]

Lol 4.4 isn't even worth getting off the couch for.

[@brighteyesseven1071]

😄ikr

[@BlakeB415]

Finally catching up to Japan I see.

[@jennaandcody1]

usgs never tells the truth about the true sizemic, why is that?

[@hkgat8632]

Success? In whose mind? Man has no idea what's coming.

[@andresote2]

Shake alert sounds like an advertisement for twerking

[@kimwhatmatters4085]

With thunder you put you finger in ur ears?!?? Girl wat?!?

[@alaskanwolfmom7196]

So why is Alaska not included in the study of California Oregon and Washington. Alaska does have the most earthquakes daily

[@plawson8577]

Alaska has Far more Strong Quakes than any other state.

[@french1956]

ShakeAlert is now online in metro Seattle. Just waiting for the Cascadia Subduction Zone to snap.

[@kimwhatmatters4085]

I work we got the alerts out the tan in circles like chickens with their heads cut off

[@St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

Woo-hoo! We did it, we did it, we did it, yeah! [stops singing with "monkey companion" Boots; discovers Boots is a lowly river rat, in inside a red rainboot from the dumpster] Oh, phooey.. I'm not _Dora_ duh... yes, sweetcheeks, you can let the ferret free.😪

[@Thanatosweilder]

Can we rename this "the atlas system"

[@lakeyshaclarke1444]

I stay in Pittsburgh, California and I have my shake do I have the right and how do it work please let's me know because I live in Oakland in the 1989when I 10yrs old and I am traumatized from that and right now in Pittsburgh as I'm writing this out I feel it it's not big ones but my anxiety through the roof and I'm in scared to death so I want to make sure if I were to go to sleep that is going to wake me I have deal with all it said I just don't understand it and maybe I should go to the said the alarm is on but when I was watching my KZbin today it didn't make a sound it didn't do anything and I just happened to pull down the things that my just checking to see if I got a notification and there was and I'm like what what is going on I didn't install it just to be having it I wanted to work I have two kids now and they have no idea what I'm talking about and they don't understand my 9-year-old have an idea but he don't really have a lot of questions and I don't want to scare him but just to know that I didn't get the alert scares me because I might not be able to save them and I want to so please tell me respond back to me and let me know him if they don't work if do I have the right one at this moment I'm doing I'm about to download by six of them that's how terror I seen them people falling off the freeway I was I stayed in West Oakland right around the corner with I seen it I remember running and my body was doing like them them things that be at the car shows that I mean at the car dealerships that blows in The wind that blew up in a wet I was what I feel like I was scary so I don't I'm having a anxiety attack right now cuz this is so this little one too scared I don't want to ever I just want to be more prepared I'm older and I have two little ones ✌🏿🙏😞😫😩

[@EvoSGooD]

Wonder if he’s related to Dagroot , he built a sick Nissan Xterra Race Truck.

[@josephm5813]

glad it works but how does it technically work, because "seeing and hitting up" vs the multiple intricately connected systems, monitoring the multiple aspects of an earthquake translating the raw data via ai or what ever....I mean is it illegal to be detailed?

[@theenlightenedexchange4817]

Facts

[@hectorayala5571]

This is already in Mexico! It has been available for years! What took the USGS so long to get it here in the US? Really?

[@African.Diaspora.InLondonUK]

Every household. Should have a prepackaged emergency grab bag. Nr door.

[@joycewedel9084]

He should win a Noble Peace Prize

[@Angie-zj5jp]

Lol why? Mexico literally has had that for decades, this ain’t nothing new :v

[@eveshelman]

Japan has had this for years.

[@TheLinguistable]

I once slept through an earthquake lol

[@ivanankrom]

Not surprised, if it was not for my dad during the 1994 Northridge quake I would have slept right through it. Heavy sleeper, the alert system at that time of the day would have done nothing for me.

[@TheLinguistable]

@@ivanankrom I used to be an extremely heavy sleeper

[@mikee4639]

This alert systems seems to go through to many hands before the public are warned Cut out the middleman and report direct to the people Also this behavioural data assessment seems a little to invasive, just to tell people an earthquake is about to happen or could happen Sorry but this system seems to be less effective than it should Maybe less of the social science and more with the direct people reporting Just an observation IMO

[@robertcook5201]

He just had to get "fracking" in there.

[@spikeybunny6577]

Trust me… Fracking is a very real problem and causes very real damage! While I lived in Dallas, Texas, I felt 2 earthquakes caused by fracking: 1 near Dallas, and 1 in Oklahoma.

[@francessamael4074]

how about telling ppl how we can access shake alert...it not in my Google play store...#bayarea

[@asharon956]

I was driving the motorhome you see on span, almost rolled over. It will come down again as they were in such a hurry to open it up they didn't retrofit it.

[@gloriaroma-sandiegorealest4037]

I am Groot 🤩

[@lazka6964]

u guys show this like a new tech and in japan its been used more than 20 years ago

[@margaretphenicie4522]

The miss is worse than here. At least we have old faithful!

[@dennisfaulkner5470]

deGroot,, you've learned nothing from Dutch...dang y'all slow... you know he's Right** #Dutchsinse..,🤔

[@margaretphenicie4522]

Stay put. No running. I stayed put. I felt it right before it happened.

[@saltpepperketchup7082]

Lol. You felt it right before it happened??

[@dave8599]

if you stay put, why bother with the alert? Do you stay put if your on a rickety ladder, or under a car that is on jack stands? Stupid comment

[@nukege]

Dutch knows...

[@KarinaTheDreama]

Seems to me the USGS actually doesn’t do us very many favors by hiding actual raw data & downgrading events that lead up to threatening life events. If they are actually studying what ppl do they are pretty dumb! They need to get the alert out there quicker & also allow more time for ppl to take steps in saving their own life by giving good real data that happens ahead.

[@Aaron25thinfantry]

C'mon man...who tf you kidding 😂