Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.
Foundation president Harvey Fineberg penned a piece for the Washington Monthly’s Successes of Philanthropy series about earthquake readiness, highlighting an early warning system being tested in Oregon, Washington State and California. The ShakeAlert system is designed to provide seconds of warning before an earthquake hits, just enough time to take protective action.
The foundation’s early support jumpstarted this comprehensive earthquake early warning system that draws on the full power of the research instruments and theoretical studies that researchers had begun to deploy. This story provides the latest perspective on this long-term project; previous thoughts and highlights can be found below:
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University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences
$1,000,000
24 months
Offshore geophysical network design for earthquake and tsunami warning in the Pacific Northwest
Jan 2016
California Institute of Technology, Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences
Effective Early Warning Decisions in an Earthquake Crisis
University of California, Berkeley Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Enhancing earthquake early warning using next-generation smartphone seismic networks to detect and study earthquake…
$380,519
Policy Fellow to Support Development of California Earthquake Early Warning System
Jul 2015
United States Geological Survey
$68,000
Seismology Assessment for a Mauna Kea Earthquake Early Warning System
Apr 2014
$222,593
$653,846
36 months
Coordination and Integration of West Coast Earthquake Early Warning Prototype Activities
Jul 2012
$2,200,000
41 months
Southern California Research to Enable an Earthquake Early Warning Prototype for the Western United States
Oct 2011
$2,249,500
Northern California Research to Enable an Earthquake Early Warning Prototype for the Western United States
$2,035,000
Cascadia Seismology Research to Enable an Earthquake Early Warning System for the Western United States
