Italy is installing a national earthquake warning system
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210068
New Scientist : In the wake of last week’s deadly magnitude 6.2 earthquake in central Italy, the country is preparing for final tests of a national earthquake forecasting and warning system. Italy’s Civil Protection Department is developing a system that will collect seismic measurements from around the country and combine that data with mathematical models and historical records. Every three hours the system will spit out a report that predicts the number of earthquakes the country will experience in the next seven days. Warner Marzocchi of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome says that the system will likely be very good at predicting aftershocks, though it will not be able to predict magnitude. Predicting quakes like last week’s will be difficult because of the absence of warning tremors.
