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Most quakes are unnoticeable by people on the surfacein fact, thousands of quakes occur every day around the globe, most of them too weak to be felt. Every year, scientific instruments detect about 500,000 quakes worldwide. People feel only a small fraction of those. On average, a magnitude 8 quake happens every year somewhere on Earth. But severe earthquakes that cause widespread destruction happen on average once every five years. These great quakes can destroy cities, burst dams, trigger volcanic eruptions, and set off landslides and giant sea waves.
Japan has built a dense network of seismic instruments to rapidly detect earthquakes. They have been issuing public warnings since 2007. Time to Detect an Event. An earthquake early warning system on the west coast of the United States could provide up to tens of seconds of warning prior to shaking arriving. The time required to detect and issue a warning for an earthquake is dependent on several factors: 1  Distance between the earthquake source and the closest seismic network seismometer (station). 2  Transfer of information to the regional networks. 3  Detection and characterization of an earthquake.