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People can be in a higher state of preparedness, such as packing food and water in a vehicle and be ready to get outta Dodge. And I'm just guessing but in some
by LinuxBender 3y ago
People can be in a higher state of preparedness, such as packing food and water in a vehicle and be ready to get outta Dodge. And I'm just guessing but in some places that means local governments can call more emergency responders to active duty but no idea if that applies here.
- hugi 3y agoPretty much it. We're at a "get people and services ready for a potential disaster" stage. And it's sort of mislabeled by the Guardian. We have three stages for events like this; "uncertainty", "alert" and "emergency". The state that's been declared is "alert" not "emergency". https://www.almannavarnir.is/english/general-information/emergency-response/ https://www.almannavarnir.is/english/general-information/eme... Although sitting here and feeling my house rock back and forth, with the earthquake map looking like seen in the link below, I don't think it's too long until state of emergency. https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes Edit: And there we go. A stage of emergency was just declared for the town of Grindavík and it's being evacuated.