Most dogs just hit it without warning.

Don’t worry I can help you so that you can get it up

As well as range, it also depends on if your phone is set up to receive alerts from Google's newer Android Earthquake Alerts System. Not all manufacturers will have set up for that out of the box, some may only be hooked into the government alert system, which was apparently slower in this case.

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The other option is that the problem is irreducible. Like when economist warn about an impending event. The system may be too complex and therefore we will only get a probabilistic understanding of what may be. It can also be that the system is extremely sensitive to initial conditions and therefore any models we try to create will never have sufficient data to predict the quakes well enough. It may be that the time scale that earthquakes are predictable is too large to be useful for us as a "brace for impact" type of warning system.

If you are interested in this type of stuff you should look up complex systems. The Santa Fe Institute youtube channel has a lot of interesting stuff, but its a bunch of dry presentations.

It's not that we don't understand the mechanics, it's that we don't have the technology available to sense miles deep into the earth's crust, much less accurately. We would need to do something on the level of an MRI scan on a massively large scale.

Accidentally did a side by side test of this yesterday. My personal phone is an iPhone SE and my work phone is a Pixel 6. I work about 20 minutes outside of San Jose and got the alert that it was about to happen and then a follow up alert that it was actually happening and to duck and cover. Even gave the estimated severity on the Richter scale in the early warning so I knew what to expect.

Didn’t get shit on my iPhone.

Insane how technology evolves, a breakthrough feature rather than small camera quality increasements or faster chips. On annual releases, minor things. This feature is quite big. I thought Crash Detection was pretty nifty, Google took it further, nice!

Everyone’s assuming that when the alarm goes off, people will react as if they’ve been training for this moment most of their lives. In those 10 seconds, you have to disengage your thoughts from what you’re doing, refocus, recognize, and act. And if you have kids or elderly in the house, fagedaboutit.

I got the warning. The first time I got one. So I looked at it, and was like "huh, what is this?". And then the building started shaking. So I had about 5 seconds of warning (I was near San Mateo). But now that I know how it works, I'll be paying more attention to these. I can see it being really helpful.

Let's not act like being in front of screens and social media for hours a day doesn't affect us all. I'm glad I at least got through my teenage years before it all started coming about

Well, this is wrong. I’ve had an iPhone quake app for years.

>often preceded

There are no guarantees in seismology, what may be "often" true is very different from "always" true. Large Earthquakes also often come without warning, and small earthquakes often don't precede anything. It's not reliable enough data for prediction and geologists (at least in Canada/States) aren't able to do much with it.

A technique seismologists do use is to examine the historical record and try to make empirical predictions from the frequency of large Earthquakes, but again this is an entirely empirical method and has very large error.

Not true. Large earthquakes are often preceded by smaller ones and geologists can use this information to anticipate an impending earthquake.

My children have hardly experienced any earthquakes and we live in Southern California. A far cry from me experiencing some of the larger quakes to hit our area, one of which threw me out of bed pre-dawn and had our power out for some time. My parents experienced some large quakes as well, and some of the family of a previous generation experienced the large Alaska quake that lasted several minutes.

10 seconds is huge, but I'm afraid for a generation that has no concept of what a quake even is at this point. They haven't seen the ground shake or roll, literally looking like it's breathing.

That's not necessarily true.

If we understood the mechanics behind earthquakes well enough and had the technology to properly scan tectonic plates we might be able to predict them days, months or years ahead of time.

We might be able to notice "rough patches" in the tectonic plates, predict if and when those "rough patches" will get caught and use that to predict when earthquakes will happen.

Idk though, I'm not a seismologist.

I still chuckle when I get an archaic non-iMessage text. I like texting across continents, so blue all the way.

Well you'd have to be buddies with him first.

They also seem to be terrible with money. They're overconfident with investing and many of these professionals end up losing their shirts.

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Nice to have but yeah

The same is true of this earthquake warning system. In fact the article specifically mentions the Apple version.

Correct!

I don't think the example you are using is correct. What I am referencing is something you had no length of time to prepare for.

Example being 10 sec forewarning notification of an active shooter in your area is better than no alert right?

To me people complaining about getting such a short time span of a warning confuses since the only other option would have been no warning at all.