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NATION FHE BATTALION 5B Friday, May 2, 2003 dentists propose new earthquake alert system By Andrew Bridges THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Scientists working in Southern California have proposed a way of inter preting feeble tremors that herald a large earth quake, a step that could help in providing advance wanting. The system theoretically could give anywhere m seconds to tens of seconds of advance notice -enough time to send school children diving below their desks or to cut the flow of gas through pipelines vulnerable to rupture, scientists said. Details appear Friday in the journal Science. Similar systems already are used in California i Japan on a smaller scale. The latest system mid not predict or forecast earthquakes, but rather interpret the staggered way in which a quake’s energy travels to the surface. The first indication at the surface that a large earthquake has occurred is typically the jolt caused by the arrival of a fast-moving but low- energy wave called the primary or P wave. is followed by the more energetic but slower- moving S or shear wave that causes far more vio lent shaking. Richard Allen of the University of Wisconsin- Madison and Hiroo Kanamori of the California Institute of Technology developed a way to deter mine the location, origin, time and — most impor- y —magnitude of an earthquake from as lit tle as four seconds of measurements of the P wave. The system would rely on seismic instru ments already deployed across the greater Los Angeles region. Tapping into an earthquake’s advance notice Scientists are developing an early warning system that could provide as much as 40 seconds of notice before an earthquake strikes The system detects a quake's primary, or P waves, which precede the more destructive shear, or S waves. 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The amount of forewarning would depend on the distance of the sensors from an earthquake’s epicenter. If directly above the epicenter, there would be no time for a warning, since the S wave would arrive almost immediately after the P wave. At 37 miles from the epicenter, the system could give a magnitude estimate 16 seconds before the arrival of the S wave and the strong ground motion that accompanies it, Allen said. RADIOHEAD HAIL TO THE THIEF THE NEW ALBUM 6 • io • o3 Alleged hero arrested, among arson suspects ABILENE, Texas (AP) - Arson as the cause of an apartment lire in which a man was hailed as a hero for rescuing some occu pants, then was arrested on a probation violation after he appeared on TV. Kris Leija has now been named as a suspect in the arson, investigators said. Abilene Assistant Fire Marshal Randy Doan said a small amount NEWS IN BRIEF of hydrocarbon accelerant was found in a trailer where the apartment fire appeared to have started. 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