Uttarakhand gets India’s first earthquake early warning system

• Uttarakhad to be the first state in India to get earthquake early warning system
• Uttarakhad belongs to seismic zone V i.e. High-Risk Seismic Zone.
• It has been predicted that this area might get 8 or more magnitude of earthquake in future.

 Earthquake early warning system:-

• The system has been made by Space Dynamics, an Italian firm.
• All the system (sensor) that warn earthquakes normally detect P and S waves generated during an earthquake.
• Usually the P wave is harmless and travels faster than the S wave,
• The sensors for advance warning detects S wave generated during earth quake and warn before 1-40 seconds before earthquakes of magnitude , says Piyoosh Rautela, executive director of the State Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre.
• This system has already been used worldwide countries like Japan, Italy and U.S.