Wednesday's earthquake that struck the Delta was felt in an neighborhood in Antioch, and a resident weighs in on the effectiveness of an alert system intended to warn about impending shaking.
ANTIOCH – Just before 9:30 a.m., an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 hit about 2.5 miles southwest of the community of Isleton, triggering an emergency alert notification from USGS shake system.It was felt by many neighbors in Antioch, like Melanie Sammis. 'My kitchen light started shaking, and then the counter started shaking and I kind of braced myself a little bit,' said Sammis.The mother of two told KPIX that her phone went off seconds later.
Because of that, I was kind of waiting, expecting something bigger.'Her four-year-old son Harry also felt the quake, but it didn't rattle him too much. 'What we want to do is deliver alerts to people that need them the most,' Robert de Groot, lead of the ShakeAlert operations team at USGS. 'So what we do is deliver alerts to people, or alerts are delivered to people rather, that can feel shaking about the equivalent to a truck.
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