Ten seconds before a severe earthquake in Californias wine country caused the ground to rumble throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, a university lab in the city of Berkeley got the alert that the seismic waves were rolling its way. The lab is testing a prototype of an earthquake early-warning system that California is pursuing years after places like Mexico and Japan already have them up and running. Sundays rolling magnitude-6.0 earthquake near Napa has led to renewed calls for the systems quick deployment in the state before another, possibly more destructive temblor strikes.
Napa Quake Leads to Clamor for Warning System
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