Japan Installs the World's First Nationwide Earthquake-Detector system

No country needs an effective earthquake- warning system more than Japan, with its dizzyingly dense population and constant barrage of earthquakes. If all goes according to plan, a network of nearly 1,000 seismometers deployed around the archipelago will pick up "P-waves," the fast-moving seismic grumbles that herald major quakes.

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