2024 J. Tuzo Wilson Lecture:
When and Where
Speakers
Description
Title: Earthquake early warning: Coming to your phone in 2024
Date/time: Feb 27th (Tuesday), 2024, 7:30-9:00 pm (with refreshments afterwards)
Speaker: Prof. Richard M. Allen, University of California, Berkeley (https://rallen.berkeley.edu/)
Location: Isabel Bader Theatre (in-person)
Youtube livestreaming on the physics channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH2J2YJx3nfN1KygnB1ub4w/live
youtube livestream will commence at date and time of event.
Abstract: Earthquake early warning is a relatively new technology that can provide a few seconds of life-saving warning ahead of the next earthquake you experience. These alerts started in high hazard zones, and are now rolling-out globally, including in eastern Canada later this year. The ShakeAlert system in the western US has been generating public alerts since 2019. The free MyShake smartphone app has been delivering the alerts to the public and also collecting seismic waveforms in earthquakes. We will explore the performance of the warning systems and the utility of the massive seismic datasets now being generated by alert enabled smartphones located in the homes and offices we all occupy.
The annual Tuzo Wilson Lecture commemorates the life and work of J. Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993), one of the great earth scientists of his time, and one of the founders of Geophysics in Canada, who made decisive contributions to the revolution in the Earth Sciences brought about by the establishment of the plate tectonics paradigm in the '60s and '70s. You can find more information on the Tuzo Wilson Lecture at:https://tuzowilson.physics.utoronto.ca/
If you are interested in knowing more of Prof. Wilson's fundamental contribution to Earth Science and plate tectonics from a more personal perspective, please feel free to check out Prof. Nick Eyles's recently published biography of Prof. Wilson:https://utorontopress.com/9781487534998/tuzo/