Early warning of earthquakes

The German Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) in
The system performed the diagnosis of the M 7.6 West Java earthquake after four minutes and 38 seconds, establishing the location after two minutes and 11 seconds. In comparison, the
The GITEWS employs a software system called SeisComP (seismological communication processor), which was developed by GFZ Potsdam and recently installed at the Meteorological and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia (BMG) in
As part of the GITEWS project, SeisComP was improved to focus on accelerated manual analysis for early detection of potentially tsunamogenic large earthquakes. A new version of the software, SeisComP3, replaced an older package, installed after the
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