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The heads up is enough to read the message but not enough to decide if you need to act on it or not. Before you can process it the shaking starts.
by dudus 2mo ago
The heads up is enough to read the message but not enough to decide if you need to act on it or not. Before you can process it the shaking starts.
- loloquwowndueo 2mo agoYou always need to act on it. Get an earthquake alert? Run outside. You can go back if it was a false alert. In Mexico City the seismic alert gives like a minute (sensors are on the coast off Guerrero 350km away). Communities closer to the usual epicenter get almost no warning.
- obmelvin 2mo agoBefore one can action one needs time to read and process whether the alert is for earthquake, tsunami, child abduction, etc
- lukan 2mo agoThose things could be solved with better UI (pictures, colors, ..) to see on one glance what is going on.
- loloquwowndueo 2mo agoFirst word of the alert : EARTHQUAKE. What do you do? There are no tsunamis in Mexico City haha
- hdgvhicv 2mo agoWell if there are then the world is really screwed.
- obmelvin 2mo agoI don't see the point of focusing the conversation on Mexico City. You may be far enough from the fault line to have plenty of time to react, but not everyone does (as you acknowledge). You may not have tsunamis, but that doesn't change the fact that one needs to know WHAT to react to. You are welcome to think it is ridiculous for needing 5 seconds to process what alert is going off. But the simple reality is no good disaster plan should assume that everyone will immediately understand what is happening.
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- recursivecaveat 2mo agoI wonder if that is enough to help actually. Better that you be holding your phone than a knife or a pot of water when the shaking starts. On the other hand you are startling those people.