USGS · 70176399
Seismic Computerized Alert Network
Abstract
In 1985 the USGS devised a model for a Seismic Computerized Alert Network (SCAN) that would use continuous monitoring of seismic data from existing types of instruments to provide automatic, highly-reliable early warnings of earthquake shaking. In a large earthquake, substantial damaging ground motions may occur at great distances from the earthquake's epicenter.
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1986. Seismic Computerized Alert Network. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70176399
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