Hi all,
I am wondering about the "ARC system" in relation to the following:
I have a friend who lives in Madras and who experienced first hand the
horrors of the tsunami. At the same time, I have a neighbor who studies
earthquakes. Apparently UCSD, in San Diego, sends out emails of all earthquakes via its
'Earthquake Notification E-mails' from the USGS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/products/services.html
While I don't know quite how, I hear that a program can be written that will
send these earthquake notices as text messages to a cell phone. And
further, I wonder if these earthquake messages could be filtered such that
only those messages that might impact a particular geographical area were
sent to the people with cell phones in that area.
I have written my friend in India, and he says: "there are plenty of cell phones around here, even in the tiniest villages." He further goes on to say that a cell phone earthquake warning system "was in fact in place in at least one village here on the southeast coast. They got notice; everybody was evacuated in an orderly fashion and not one life was lost."
First, it seems like a cell phone warning system can be implemented directly between a data service
and the people of a village. But the data service -- like the "'Earthquake
Notification E-mails' from the USGS" is probably free to anyone who wants to
use it. On the other hand, filtering down the warnings so that they apply
to a particular region would take technical knowledge, I don't know how
much.
From reading about the "ARC system", I can't quite figure out if it is
already set up to do the above. Does anyone know the answer to this?
Thanks Steven Elster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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