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<blockquote data-quote="whoosh" data-source="post: 685416" data-attributes="member: 10901">Japan has the most sophisticated earthquake detection network in the world — a system of 4,235 seismometers can detect the very first waves from a quake, before estimating its focus, magnitude and seismic intensity.Phone alerts are then sent out, giving people precious seconds to prepare themselves for the shaking to come.The earthquake today off Fukushima underlines how important these early warning systems are, in a country that has more large earthquakes than any other, and from where the word &quot;tsunami&quot; — meaning harbour wave — originates.But like the tsunami stones that dot the Japanese coast, warnings are only effective if people heed them<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-22/fukushima-nuclear-plant-gap-in-japan's-wall-of-disaster-defences/8045894" target="_blank">Fukushima nuclear plant remains a gap in Japan's disaster defences</a> <img src="/images/smilies/yahoo/43.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":zoned:" title="Zoned&nbsp; &nbsp; :zoned:" data-shortname=":zoned:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="whoosh, post: 685416, member: 10901"] Japan has the most sophisticated earthquake detection network in the world — a system of 4,235 seismometers can detect the very first waves from a quake, before estimating its focus, magnitude and seismic intensity. Phone alerts are then sent out, giving people precious seconds to prepare themselves for the shaking to come. The earthquake today off Fukushima underlines how important these early warning systems are, in a country that has more large earthquakes than any other, and from where the word "tsunami" — meaning harbour wave — originates. But like the tsunami stones that dot the Japanese coast, warnings are only effective if people heed them [URL="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-22/fukushima-nuclear-plant-gap-in-japan's-wall-of-disaster-defences/8045894"]Fukushima nuclear plant remains a gap in Japan's disaster defences[/URL] :zoned: [/QUOTE]

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