By catherine A. cardno, PH.D. Seismic early warning systems can provide valuable time. Such systems give everyone a chance to seek shelter, give train operators time to begin stopping trains, and give factory supervisors the opportunity to stop machinery that could be irreparably damaged or cause dangerous spills. Last month California's governor, Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (D), signed into law a bill calling for the creation of a statewide earthquake early warning system. The law requires the Governor's Office of Emergency Services to develop a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning system, establish standards for the system, and find funding sources. The law notes that since a number of agencies and research bodies-including the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, the California Institute of Technology, the California Geological Survey, the University of California at Berkeley, and the U.S. Geological Survey-have been doing research and development work in this area as part of the California Integrated Seismic Network, the system called for in the new law can build upon this work.
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机译：凯瑟琳·A·卡德诺（Catherine A.cardno），博士地震预警系统可以提供宝贵的时间。这种系统使每个人都有机会寻求庇护，使火车操作员有时间开始停止火车，并给工厂主管提供机会停止可能被损坏或造成危险泄漏的机械。上个月，加利福尼亚州州长埃德蒙·布朗（Edmund G. Brown，Jr.）签署了一项法案，要求建立全州地震预警系统。法律要求州长紧急服务办公室开发一个全面的全州地震预警系统，建立该系统的标准，并找到资金来源。该法律指出，自从许多机构和研究机构（包括州长紧急服务办公室，加利福尼亚理工学院，加利福尼亚地质调查局，加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校和美国地质调查局）一直在进行研究和作为加利福尼亚综合地震台网的一部分，该领域的开发工作可以在新工作的基础上建立新法律中要求的系统。
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