China Lacks Earthquake Early-Warning System

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• other warnings tfrijnts on 05/15/2008 at 2:21 AM

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  I read (in a Dutch quality news paper) that Tibetan farmers knew a natural disaster was about to happen seven days before the quake, because of a sudden, massive exodus of toads. The paper also claims warmings of several employees of the Chinese seismological bureau where ignored by authorities. So it seems like early warnings are possible? (be it, with some uncertainty) Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • Re: other warnings johnalphonse on 05/15/2008 at 5:13 AM

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    Hooray for the toads!  What a lesson they have for us if only we listen.  Nature provides all we need to know; man wants to complicate it, label it, make it, and put a name, reputation and price tag on it... And look how we treat our toads!  We have polluted our own good friends' livelihood. How did China get the Olympics anyway?  What else are they NOT prepared for?  Remember that baseball game last year interrupted by a swarm of locusts?  We ain't seen nothin' yet. Rate this comment: (Reply)

    • Re: other warnings Martinadalkon1916 on 05/15/2008 at 1:27 PM

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      maybe fifteen years ago my friend , head of asian studies at ut austin went to china with many experts in seisma matters.  china at that time had publicity saying, we moved two hundred thousand out of the city and the quake came some few hours later.  Result of the US study was not satisfactory, in china birds and other animals were watched but did not prove certain enough to use.  I was in the big earthquake in Guatemala in 1976.  I happened to be awake at 3 a m and it began like any small one but then shot up like an atomic bomb.  my dog would go to the door to be let out each time before one of the after shocks. So I could learn from an animal when there is going to be an aftershock but not the main earthquake. Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	Re: other warnings axckxho on 05/19/2008 at 5:38 AM
    Posts: 1	doesn't help very much even if with early-warning system; that part is unfit for nearly 10 Mio population settlement with poor infrastructure;the Chineses gov't has been working hard to raise living standards of the central and western parts of China and making some progress; Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Early warning system-Made in Germany Juergen on 05/19/2008 at 7:23 AM

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  We have developed an early earthquake warning and security device for private homes, schools, hospitals, small village warning, apartments, hotels, skyscrapers and industry market. This system can warn the people in the endangered regions on time before an earthquake comes and shut off all systems. The function ability was tested positively in extensive tests at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/pb2/index_e.html).  The system already is in use in 10 different earthquake countries. In a school in San Salvador our system has given alarm 30 seconds before the S-wave reached the building. The EPI-centre was 140km away from the school. We sold it to Honolulu, to Chile, Greece (City Hall), to Turkey (Consulate of Czech Republic in Istanbul, Hilton Hotel Istanbul), in Indonesia (Banda Ache), to Iran, to Afghanistan (Office of German Agro Action), to Pakistan (Hospital Kashmir), to Peru (private houses), to San Salvador (German school) and also in Germany. Our system is an indispensable component of the modern building management in all vulnerable to seismic shock countries today. We can also connect our system in your building management system. The product has won the idea price "W.I.N. AWARD 2006" as the best product innovation 2006 in Germany.  We work with same international organizations. Enclosed some information about company and product: Our sensors record the harmless P wave. About electronics the wave is analyzed and evaluated in fractions of a second. If the swelling value (the intensity at the building) should be higher than the value demanded by the scientists, the system will give alarm. Different switching processes can be started over an energy management. In this way, for instance, it is possible to give alarm before shut off gas and electricity supplies shut off the water supply activate emergency power generators park elevators open safety doors and gates traffic lights in front of bridges and tunnels control railway signal installations run data back-up programs Overall, the energy management system is able to control up to a maximum of 8 different electronically operated energy systems and building installations. The sensor can over a display with 8 differently swelling values (depend for the intensity of an earthquake where at the local place the system is installed) be adjusted according to the structure of the building. For an additional safety the system can be executed redundantly against false alarms. It is dependent how many people I will warn (single house = 1 detector and for example a 30 apartments building = 2 - 3 detectors).  The sensors can be connected to a network with each other in a "Master/ Slave" up to 16 detectors relation.  The basic module consist of the earthquake device and two sirens (as a single item 1,950 $US). For more information see our WEB page and a German movie http://www.secty-electronics.de/news.html or the German Embassy in Washington:  http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week/2008/080125/economy7.html Do you need more information? Please contact me. I looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best Regards, Juergen Przybylak Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	Re: Early warning system-Made in Germany altan on 07/21/2008 at 11:34 PM
    Posts: 1	Please provide us more detailed information and your contact address Rate this comment: (Reply)

    • 	Re: Early warning system-Made in Germany Juergen on 10/21/2008 at 9:46 AM
      Posts: 2 Avg Rating:	Hello altan, the company name is secty electronics GmbH. Regards, Jürgen Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Natural and Man-made Disaster - Preventions and Recoveries johnfranks999 on 06/02/2008 at 11:44 AM

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  A great discussion of DAPR (Disaster Awareness, Preparedness, and Recovery) can be had in the last chapter of "I.T. Wars:  Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium."  The author exposes prevention measures in guarding against errors and large-scale man-made harm, such as terror attack, as well as exposing the best awarenesses, readiness postures and responses to natural (unpreventable) disasters.  He uses 9/11 and Katrina for his discussions.  Highly recommended. Rate this comment: (Reply)