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A tap on the screen directed me to a Google site telling me what steps I should take during an earthquake, blah, blah, blah. I am in east central California. As it turns out, the temblor was only a 4.7, and it was way off in remote mountains thirty miles north of Lake Tahoe, or about 160 miles from my location. Needless to say we didn't feel a thing here. I suspect it may have been felt in Reno and Truckee areas, but even then probably not that strong.

A tap on the screen directed me to a Google site telling me what steps I should take during an earthquake, blah, blah, blah. I am in east central California. As it turns out, the temblor was only a 4.7, and it was way off in remote mountains thirty miles north of Lake Tahoe, or about 160 miles from my location. Needless to say we didn't feel a thing here. I suspect it may have been felt in Reno and Truckee areas, but even then probably not that strong.

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Pump some cortisol levels up in the people. Nothing like fear piled upon fear to make a population compliant.

Fear is the mind killer.

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It's interesting. I did have a little reaction to the warning, but the fear pangs passed very quickly when I realized that if I was going to feel any shaking it would have probably been before I even got the "warning." My dad's phone went off several minutes later (different cellular provider) --laughable.

The area where I live is seismically active, and we do feel earthquakes pretty frequently. Most of them are 4.0 or less but they are within about 30 miles. A 6.7 temblor hit out in the Nevada desert last year and it shook us up pretty hard here, but there was no Google warning on our phones for that one. Obviously Google must be using telephone service areas, or political boundaries, instead of properly using geographic data, to determine who should be warned. I suppose that Apple is using the same or similar system on their iphones.