The Utah State Legislature is being asked to spend $150,000 to study whether the state could benefit from new technology that could alert people of an earthquake about to hit.
“It gives us time — even if it’s 10 seconds — it gives us time to shut things off and make it more secure and save lives,” Sen. Jani Iwamoto, D-Holladay, told FOX 13 News in an interview Friday.
She asked her colleagues on the legislature’s Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee to fund the request. It would study if Utah could successfully implement an earthquake early warning system.
To read more about the proposed technology, visit FOX 13.
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