ShakeAlert® Earthquake Early Warning System (USGS and university partners)
Contact
Telephone
Voice: +1-626-583-7225
Regional Partners
- Berkeley Seismological Lab
- California Geological Survey
- California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
- California Integrated Seismic Network
- Caltech Seismological Laboratory
- University of Oregon
- University of Washington
- USGS Menlo Park
- USGS Pasadena
Contributing Networks
- California Department of Water Resources
- Calpine
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
- University of California Santa Barbara
- University of California San Diego
- University of Nevada, Reno
Mission
ShakeAlert® is an earthquake early warning (EEW) system that detects significant earthquakes so quickly that alerts can reach many people before shaking arrives. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) along with a coalition of State and university partners is developing and testing the ShakeAlert System for the West Coast of the United States.