Federal funds boost longstanding effort to build an earthquake early warning system for Alaska

Federal funds boost longstanding effort to build an earthquake early warning system for Alaska

The remains of an Anchorage elementary school after the M9.2 Great Alaska Earthquake on March 27, 1964, the second-strongest earthquake ever recorded. (USGS) Alaskans are a small step closer to having a system that can send alerts to their phones seconds before an earthquake hits. Those alerts would come from a U. S. Geological Survey early warning system called ShakeAlert — which some states and countries have had for years. In late February, C…