{"id":235474,"date":"2026-04-17T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ocean-bottom-seismometers-could-improve-earthquake-warning-times-in-pacific-northwest"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:11:11","slug":"ocean-bottom-seismometers-could-improve-earthquake-warning-times-in-pacific-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ocean-bottom-seismometers-could-improve-earthquake-warning-times-in-pacific-northwest","title":{"rendered":"Ocean bottom seismometers could improve earthquake warning times in Pacific Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ocean-bottom-seismometers-could-improve-earthquake-warning-times-in-pacific-northwest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there is a magnitude 8 or 9 megathrust earthquake off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, data from ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) could improve earthquake detection times calculated by the ShakeAlert system.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/meetings.seismosoc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">2026 SSA Annual Meeting<\/a>, Zoe Krauss said ShakeAlert\u2019s earthquake detection time could be improved by 5 to 9 seconds by <a href=\"https:\/\/seismosoc.secure-platform.com\/a\/gallery\/rounds\/47\/details\/14673\" target=\"_blank\">incorporating data from six cabled OBS deployed offshore Oregon<\/a> as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Regional Cabled Network and five cabled OBSs deployed offshore Vancouver Island on Ocean Networks Canada\u2019s (ONC) NEPTUNE cable.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently only two cabled OBSs offshore Oregon, but the Cascadia Offshore Subduction Zone Observatory (COSZO) project will add four new OBS to the OOI network this summer, bringing these potential added detection times closer to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is a magnitude 8 or 9 megathrust earthquake off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, data from ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) could improve earthquake detection times calculated by the ShakeAlert system. At the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting, Zoe Krauss said ShakeAlert\u2019s earthquake detection time could be improved by 5 to 9 seconds by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}