When the Next Big Earthquake Happens

I have friends that live near the New Madrid Seismic Zone in SE Missouri, so I want quick notification of any large earthquake there. The United States Geological Survey website offers quick notification to your email address of earthquakes anywhere in the world. They are available in full-text or abbreviated format, so they are appropriate for your normal email or a short text message to your cellphone. I like that I can set a minimum threshold for the magnitude of earthquakes in which I am interested.

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The U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Earthquake
Notification Service (ENS) is a customizable system provided free to everyone.
You can receive earthquake notifications for any earthquakes located by the
ANSS/NEIC (Advanced National Seismic System/National Earthquake Information
Center) in the U.S. and around the World. Information for earthquakes in the
U.S. is generally available within 5 minutes; information for earthquakes
elsewhere in the World is generally available within 30 minutes.


Customizable Options:

• Functional in English and Spanish
• Specify your local time zone
• Specify affiliation
• Aftershock exclusion option
• Update Notifications option
• Defer Notifications option
• Add and remove multiple email addresses (up to 15)
• Define multiple notification profiles
• Activate/Deactivate each profile individually
• Set notification magnitude thresholds for night and day hours
• Receive emails in 3 formats: long, short (for pagers and cell phones), and raw CUBE format messages
• Create a notification profile region from a list of predefined regions
• Create a rectangular profile region from four specified lat/lon points
• Specify a circular profile region from a center point and radius, or pick it on a map
• Make a custom polygon profile region by picking points on a map, or uploading XML
• Remove profiles
• Manage/Delete account

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Signup:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ens/

Details:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ens/help.html



For further information, try these links:

CUSEC - Central United States Earthquake Consortium
http://www.cusec.org/

Description of past and potential future damage from a large New Madrid earthquake
http://www.cusec.org/S_zones/NMSZ/nmsz_home.htm

Comparison of similar-magnitude earthquakes in San Francisco and New Madrid
http://www.cusec.org/S_zones/NMSZ/Areas.htm




You can see that an 8.6 earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone is likely to level St. Louis & Memphis -- along with mass destruction in Little Rock, Springfield, Paducah, and other towns and cities.



-- Patrick B

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