Did you know that there's an earthquake in Japan every 5 minutes? That's really frequent. Anyway, starting this summer, seismotologists are going to be depending on satellites to tell them when a tremor is near. Reuters reports:
The new system, called "J-ALERT," will send disaster warnings from the Meteorological Agency via satellite to city and town offices, automatically activating warning sirens and emergency broadcast systems. Until now, local officials have had to activate these systems themselves after receiving warnings.
They're still working out some software glitches, but it sounds promising. The photo's from the Great Kobe Earthquake in 1995.
Cool! but will the satellite let you know of an impending attack from Godzilla?
Posted by: Uchiha Sasuke | February 10, 2007 at 11:54 AM
Or you could take the natural (and cheaper) approach of consulting your Earthquake Plant.
http://www.bloom-s.co.jp/shopping/tane/earthquake_plant.html
Posted by: Rog | February 12, 2007 at 07:03 PM