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Each monitoring station must be equipped with a backup battery system with the capacity to provide four days of continuous operation in order to continue monitoring via local record.
May 4, 2021 at 1:44 pm Karl Hagel and Pat McChesney, field engineers with the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network team at the University of Washington, install earthquake monitoring equipment on the slopes of Mount St. Helens, with Mount Hood in the distance. (Credit: Marc Biundo, University of Washington. Courtesy of Marc Biundo/University of Washington) If an earthquake hits Washington, the state’s new ShakeAlert system will let you know seconds before you even feel the shaking. ShakeAlert launched on Tuesday, May 4. “Even with a few seconds of warning, people’s beha...