Mayday Industries C-88QUAKE Earthquake Warning Alarm

this is what a megathrust earthquake can do a magnitude 9.0 off the coast of Japan five years ago beneath the beauty of mountains and ocean on Canada's west coast the same kind of earthquake is waiting to strike but at this Vancouver school students and staff will get an early warning and a chance to take cover before the shaking starts it's part of a pilot project for an earthquake early warning system designed by UBC it gives us a warning that we did not have before we could only react at the impact of an earthquake now we have seconds potentially minutes and even seconds can be critical when an earthquake strikes the energy released is sent out as seismic waves in all directions the fastest waves the waves that arrive first don't actually shake the ground in a damaging way in fact we can't even feel these primary or P waves but sensors can there's a lag between those waves and the ar