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People are in the wrong place when that shaking begins. Reporter the amount of warning depends on how far away you are from the epicenter. From no warning in the worst case to seconds to tens of seconds. You will get it on your smartphone, radio, you get it over, um, you get maybe an audible alert. Reporter the bay area is one of the first regions to test out the Early Warning system so late 2017, early 2018, is when you could be hearing the alert in a major earthquake. In sacramento, im da lin, kpix 5. The plan now is to make the quake alert an automatic feature on your cell phone and you wont need to sign up for it. The quake warning sensors work by measuring primary waves or pwaves. [ pause ] you see how those two dogs reacted before the shaking happened . Animals thought to be more sensitive to the pwaves. They are the first waves from a quake generally smaller and harder to feel. But the baby is jolted awake by secondary or th ....