Diego Melgar
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 25 Nov
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You would feel shaking where it's difficult, maybe even impossible for you to stay standing for anywhere between one or three seconds.
Start counting right now and realize how long that is.
We might get significant collapses of bridges and any old infrastructure.
We would get thousands of landslides across the region, most of them covering land.
Major thoroughfares, especially in places that are very steep, like the coast ranges.
Earthquakes can cluster in time.
So it can be that every now and then the earthquakes happen in quick succession.
So even though it's 500 years on average, it is not the case that they happen.
500 years, nothing, earthquake.
500 years, nothing, earthquake.
That's not how Earth works.
I wish it were.
We have really good idea of what the tsunamis are going to look like and what the shaking is going to look like.
And that's actionable information that we put to use.
The idea is quite simple.
We need seismometers.
Sensors that feel the first teeny tiny vibrations.
They're not from a magnitude six.
They're probably from magnitude eight or from a magnitude nine.
And after a few of these seismic stations detect these teeny tiny vibrations, then all the logic algorithms and technology kicks in and the alert goes off by cell phones, by emergency sirens and so on.
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