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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

 

Hosted By Vicki Gonzalez

Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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Lessons From Mexico On Earthquake Warning Systems

  •  Chris Remington 
Monday, September 25, 2017 | Sacramento, CA
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Mexico City residents continue to recover from last week’s massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake, and officials question whether a proper warning system could’ve reduced the number of casualties.

UC Davis Professor Dr. Jonathan Rundle has studied earthquakes for decades and helped develop a new system called “seismic nowcasting”, which uses previous history on tremors to predict future quakes. Rundle explains which California cities face the greatest risks and what financial modeling can teach us about earthquake forecasting.

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Chris Remington

Former Producer, Insight

Chris joined Capital Public Radio’s “Insight with Beth Ruyak” in September 2016, booking a wide variety of guests, developing questions and producing music elements for the program.  Read Full Bio 

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