Students and staff across the school district — and the region — will participate in the annual Great #ShakeOut drill at 10:17 a…
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Students and staff across the school district — and the region — will participate in the annual Great #ShakeOut drill at 10:17 a.m. today (Oct. 17) to practice earthquake safety and test our early warning system.
The district deployed an earthquake early warning system in 2019 at Stanwood Elementary — the first school in the state to connect to the USGS’s ShakeAlert system. We have since added sensors to all 13 of its buildings and connected them to a centralized intercom that is automatically activated by a seismic event.
The sensors are part of the automated earthquake early warning system, called ShakeAlert, that is now available to more than 50 million residents within the country’s most earthquake-prone region. You can download the ShakeAlert app to be automatically notified of earthquakes.
ShakeAlert uses a network of more than 1,600 seismometers on the West Coast that constantly monitor for location, magnitude and intensity of an earthquake. When a quake does strike, seismic waves travel out in all directions. But primary waves (p-waves) — what the technology detects — travel faster than the slower secondary waves (s-waves), which can produce violent shaking.
The warning to seek shelter can come just seconds before shaking starts or up to a minute before the earth starts to move, depending on the location of the quake’s epicenter. The early warning allows time for students and staff to seek shelter as well as other vital automated systems such as utility pipelines shutdown before they are damaged.
Download the ShakeAlert app at: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-do-i-sign-shakealertr-earthquake-early-warning-system?fbclid=IwY2xjawFzhClleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQSqq51dYfoRq1z4GKCvgvM90sU9ULJhMWhdXnnLV2crbtQGKhqsrUxQcQ_aem_joseawRmUsPNUBrCu5tJKA
