In Episode 23, Quinn & Brian ask: can we predict the next big earthquake? Pretty please?
Joining us is Josh Bashioum, founder of Early Warning Labs, an earthquake early warning technology developer, whose mission is to improve, expand, and lower the costs of existing earthquake early warning systems.
Listen in as we discuss San Francisco, the northwest, San Andreas, The Rock, other dreamy action stars, and how LA is (shockingly) more prepared than you think. 

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 Early Warning Labs on Twitter
 Early Warning Labs
 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
 The MMI Scale
 The USGS
 UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
  Dr. Lucy “The Earthquake Lady” Jones
  ABC story on Early Warning Labs
  CBS story on Early Warning Labs
  Trump’s Book Club: The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them), by Lucy Jones
  Quinn Emmett on Twitter
  Brian Colbert Kennedy on Twitter
  Intro/outro by Tim Blane
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In Episode 23, Quinn & Brian ask: can we predict the next big earthquake? Pretty please? Joining us is Josh Bashioum, founder of Early Warning Labs, an earthquake early warning technology developer, whose mission is to improve, expand, and lower the costs of existing earthquake early warning systems. Listen in as we discuss San Francisco, the northwest, San Andreas, The Rock, other dreamy action stars, and how LA is (shockingly) more prepared than you think. Want to send us feedback? Tweet us, email us, or leave us a voice message! Links: Early Warning Labs on Twitter Early Warning Labs Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation The MMI Scale The USGS UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Dr. Lucy “The Earthquake Lady” Jones ABC story on Early Warning Labs CBS story on Early Warning Labs Trump’s Book Club: The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them), by Lucy Jones Quinn Emmett on Twitter Brian Colbert Kennedy on Twitter Intro/outro by Tim Blane Subscribe to our newsletter at ImportantNotImportant.com! Like and share us on Facebook! Check us on Instagram! Follow us on Twitter! Pin us on Pinterest! Tumble us or whatever the hell you do on Tumblr! Ok that’s enough good lord

In Episode 23, Quinn &amp; Brian ask: can we predict the next big earthquake? Pretty please?
Joining us is Josh Bashioum, founder of Early Warning Labs, an earthquake early warning technology developer, whose mission is to improve, expand, and lower the costs of existing earthquake early warning systems.
Listen in as we discuss San Francisco, the northwest, San Andreas, The Rock, other dreamy action stars, and how LA is (shockingly) more prepared than you think.&nbsp;

Want to send us feedback? Tweet us, email us, or leave us a voice message!

Links:

 Early Warning Labs on Twitter
 Early Warning Labs
 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
 The MMI Scale
 The USGS
 UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
  Dr. Lucy “The Earthquake Lady” Jones
  ABC story on Early Warning Labs
  CBS story on Early Warning Labs
  Trump’s Book Club: The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them), by Lucy Jones
  Quinn Emmett on Twitter
  Brian Colbert Kennedy on Twitter
  Intro/outro by Tim Blane
  Subscribe to our newsletter at ImportantNotImportant.com!
  Like and share us on Facebook!
  Check us on Instagram!
  Follow us on Twitter!
  Pin us on Pinterest!
  Tumble us or whatever the hell you do on Tumblr!
  Ok that’s enough good lord

#23: Can We Predict the Next Big Earthquake?

You already know things are broken. You read the news, you listen to the analysis, you've got the outrage. What you don't have is a plan.

The Most Important Question — 6x Webby-nominated, 2x Signal Award-nominated — is a weekly conversation with one person who stopped asking "what can I do?" and went and found out. Not pundits. Not commentators. The scientists, doctors, nurses, journalists, farmers, activists, and policymakers who are doing the actual work on the frontlines of climate, public health, democracy, AI, food, water, medicine, and justice.

Host Quinn Emmett goes deep with each of them — the infectious disease doctor building new outbreak surveillance tools, the investigative journalist who traced how forever chemicals got into 97% of our blood, the economist building emergency lifeboats for foreign aid that got axed overnight, one of the greatest writers alive reckoning with the history we were never taught — and every conversation ends with something nobody else gives you: a plan. What you can do. Specifically. This week. However you show up.

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You already know things are broken. You read the news, you listen to the analysis, you've got the outrage. What you don't have is a plan. The Most Important Question — 6x Webby-nominated, 2x Signal Award-nominated — is a weekly conversation with one person who stopped asking "what can I do?" and went and found out. Not pundits. Not commentators. The scientists, doctors, nurses, journalists, farmers, activists, and policymakers who are doing the actual work on the frontlines of climate, public health, democracy, AI, food, water, medicine, and justice. Host Quinn Emmett goes deep with each of them — the infectious disease doctor building new outbreak surveillance tools, the investigative journalist who traced how forever chemicals got into 97% of our blood, the economist building emergency lifeboats for foreign aid that got axed overnight, one of the greatest writers alive reckoning with the history we were never taught — and every conversation ends with something nobody else gives you: a plan. What you can do. Specifically. This week. However you show up. We don't care if you donate or volunteer or vote or organize or just finally understand what the hell is happening with measles so you can push back at Thanksgiving. We care that you do something. 220+ episodes. 110+ countries. One question: What can I do? New episodes weekly. You're already informed. Let's get to work.

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