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Evolving Best Practices for Station Buildout in EEW and New Permanent Networks

Date: 4/24/2019

Time: 2:15 PM to 3:30 PM

Room: Grand Crescent

On the US West Coast, the U.S. Geological Survey and its partner institutions, University of California, Berkeley, Caltech, the University of Oregon and the University of Washington are focusing on completing the build-out of the infrastructure for initial implementation of ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) in the United States. Over the next few years, the number of EEW-capable seismic stations must at least double from today's ~850 contributing stations. This effort requires planning regarding station density and type as well as complex logistics including siting, legal and environmental permitting, equipment specification and delivery. Other important topics include data quality and latency, continuous monitoring systems, delivery of alerts and other technical topics. This session invites contributions from any EEW system operator on all these topics related to EEW build, including case studies for current and planned seismic networks as well as new ideas for developing EEW deployments and collaborations with contributing networks that are novel for their design or approach in handling these issues.

Conveners

Fabia Terra, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (terra@seismo.berkeley.edu)
Mouse Marie Reusch, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (topo@uw.edu)
Tim Parker, Nanometrics Incorporated (timparker@nanometrics.ca)
Geoffrey Bainbridge, Nanometrics Incorporated (geoffreybainbridge@nanometrics.ca)

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