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Richard Vogel / AP Originally published on May 5, 2021 7:00 am Residents living on the West Coast don't know when the next earthquake will hit. But a new expansion of the U.S. earthquake early warning system gives 50 million people in California, Oregon — and now Washington — seconds to quickly get to safety whenever the next one hits. As of 8 a.m. Tuesday, cellphone users in California, Oregon and Washington should receive a mobile alert from the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system when tremors are detected. Alerts are sent from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Wir...

In major milestone, U.S. earthquake early warning system now covers entire West Coast Rong-Gong Lin II © Provided by The LA Times Earthquake damage in Ridgecrest, Calif., in 2019. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) In a major achievement years in the making, the U.S. earthquake early warning system will now be able to issue alerts to cellphone users anywhere on the West Coast of the continental U.S. beginning this morning. On Tuesday at 8 a.m., mobile users in Washington state finally gained access to the earthquake early warning system's mobile alerts. The alert system for m...

Print In a major achievement years in the making, the U.S. earthquake early warning system will now be able to issue alerts to cellphone users anywhere on the West Coast of the continental U.S. beginning this morning. On Tuesday at 8 a.m., mobile users in Washington state finally gained access to the earthquake early warning system’s mobile alerts. The alert system for mobile users was launched in Los Angeles in late 2018, and was expanded across the rest of California in late 2019. In March, Oregon mobile phone users began getting access to earthquake early warning system alerts. The ann...

In major milestone, US earthquake early warning system now covers entire West Coast Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times May 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 15: In this before-and-after composite image, (Top) A view of the doorway to a damaged apartment building on Beach Street near Divisadero Street following the Loma Prieta earthquake on October 17, 1989 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by C.E. Meyer/U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library via Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 15: (Bottom) A view of a garage at an apartment building on Beach Street...

Quake alert system launched in Oregon A mobile phone customer looks at an earthquake warning application on an iPhone in Los Angeles recently. An earthquake early warning system operated by the U.S. Geological Survey has been activated in Oregon. (AP File Photo/Richard Vogel) By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — People in Oregon will be better prepared for earthquakes — particularly important in the Pacific Northwest because experts say “the big one” is coming — as an early warning system launched Thursday, the 10th anniversary of a devastating quake and tsunami in ...