Seismograph
Seismograph - A public earthquake early warning system in Greece and Italy could give people vital seconds' notice of a major earthquake, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. South-eastern Europe is the continent's most seismically active region, with Greece, Italy and Turkey often experiencing the most frequent and strongest earthquakes. Greece and Italy currently have no operational government-supported countryor region-wide warning systems in place. The only European countries with such systems in place are Romania and Turkey. Central Italy in particular regularly experiences earthquakes, with the most notable recent ones being a series across 2016 and 2017. The first of these, in August 2016, killed nearly 300 people and cost between $1 billion and $11 billion, with widespread damage to cultural heritage buildings and infrastructure. In the paper researchers from UCL and the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) find that an earthquake early warning system, similar to those used in countries including the USA and Japan, could give over 10 seconds of warning time at various locations across Europe.
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