Potential of Earthquake Early Warning Systems

Friedemann Wenzel (), Michael Baur, Frank Fiedrich, Constantin Ionescu and Mihnea Ionescu

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2001, vol. 23, issue 2, 407-416

Abstract: Despite their short warning times (seconds to tens of seconds)earthquake early warning systems can become useful tools in riskmitigation provided their design is robust and utilizes theregional tectonics. Bucharest can serve as a good example forsuch a system with a warning time of 25 seconds. Integration ofearly warning into real-time information systems turns out beingcrucial in disaster management. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001

Keywords: early warning systems (EWS); earthquake; Bucharest; cost-benefit analysis; real-time information systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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