California Struggling To Prepare Quake Early Warning System

The state spends a fraction of what countries like Mexico and Japan spend on their systems. One reason for the lack of interest, experts say, is that California has not experienced a catastrophic quake in more than a century.Japan has one. So do Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey and Romania.

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