QuakeView: A Quake Warning System for Southern California Edison

A research team in the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona has developed a GIS- based earthquake warning software package called QuakeView for Southern California Edison (SCE). QuakeView is the core module of the SCE emergency preparedness system. It estimates wave fronts of earthquakes. It consists of two primary components: the earthquake simulation and the application environment. The earthquake simulation compiles recorded earthquake data and streams the data, in real time, into the application environment through TCP/IP (1) connections. The application environment contains the earthquake data processing server, the real-time event- tracking server, and an ArcView client application. It displays real-time wave fronts that move outwards from the epicenter of an earthquake.