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To: Eric who wrote (57334)	8/26/2014 4:19:36 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Eric, you seem to miss the point of things in your effort to be disagreeable. I was explaining the advantage of a cellphone warning for tsunamis, not for earthquakes that happen nearby. If an earthquake happens where you are, you won't need a radio to figure out that there's a problem. The shaking ground will communicate directly with your brain. Masonry falling on your head will act as a back-up warning that things are not going well. Tsunamis happen far away and the earthquake is not felt unless it was close. If the earthquake is felt so strongly that the cellphone systems stop working, then that's a pretty good indication that there is a very close tsunami and that fleeing to high ground would be a good idea if there is oceanic water nearby and not many metres lower. If it's a bolide splashdown, there won't be any earthquake. In Japan for example, it's unlikely that people needed an official warning to head for high ground after the mega earthquake they experienced. That's nice that you had a handy device in your pocket which keeps working no matter what. <My communications system never went down. > My companies Qualcomm and Globalstar provided such a system which kept on working in New Orleans during and after the Katrina disaster. People can now use their swanky Cyberphones with a wifi modem link to Globalstar. You are right, it is very nifty. Better than your system. Mqurice