Citation: Parolai S, Boxberger T, Pilz M, Fleming K, Haas M, Pittore M, Petrovic B, Moldobekov B, Zubovich A and Lauterjung J (2017) Assessing Earthquake Early Warning Using Sparse Networks in Developing Countries: Case Study of the Kyrgyz Republic. Front. Earth Sci. 5:74. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00074 Assessing Earthquake Early Warning Using Sparse Networks in Developing Countries: Case Study ...

On 12 May 2008, the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province, China, triggering thousands of landslides, debris flows, and barrier lakes, leading to a substantial loss of life and damage to the local environment and infrastructure. This study aimed to monitor the status of geologic hazards and vegetation recovery in a post-earthquake disaster area using high-resolution aer...

The Himalayan mountain range has been the locus of some of the largest continental earthquakes, including the 2015 magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake. Competing hypotheses suggest that Himalayan topography is sustained and plate convergence is accommodated either predominantly on the main plate boundary fault, or more broadly across multiple smaller thrust faults. Here we use geodetic measurements...

Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems have been rapidly developing over the past decade. Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has an EEW system that was operating during the 2011 M9 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, and this increased the awareness of EEW systems around the world. While longer-time earthquake prediction still faces many challenges to be practical, the availability of shorter-time EEW o...

The recent large earthquakes have emphasized the importance of earthquake loss mitigation and how earthquake early warning (EEW) systems can help. An EEW system detects an earthquake initiation based on a seismic sensor network and broadcasts a warning of the predicted location and magnitude shortly before an earthquake hits a site. The typical range of this lead time is around tens of seconds ...

[1] We explore the use of real‐time high‐rate GPS displacement data for earthquake early warning using 1 Hz displacement waveforms from the April 4, 2010, Mw 7.2 El Mayor‐Cucapah earthquake. We compare these data to those provided by the broadband velocity and accelerometer instrumentation of the Southern California Seismic Network. The unique information provided by the GPS‐based displacement ...

Southwestern British Columbia (BC) is exposed to the highest seismic hazard in Canada. Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) has developed an Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system for region. The successfully utilizes offshore cabled instruments addition land-based sensors and integrates displacement data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). geodetic are processed real-time onsite at 40 diffe...