Buying a little time: Warning system for catastrophic quakes

“At the urging of state Rep. Nancy Nathanson, D-Eugene, the 2015 Legislature appropriated $670,000 for the purchase of a network of 15 earthquake detection stations in Oregon from the National Science Foundation. The NSF installed the detectors in 2010 for a research project that ends this year, and would have moved them to Alaska if Oregon hadn’t moved to snap them up for about half their initial cost.”