The Mayor's Fund and the Annenberg Foundation funded the creation of the app in a public-private partnership. Miraculously to some reporters in the room during the announcement, the city met the deadline - releasing the app on December 31. With the West Coast's vulnerability to earthquakes, the LA mayor announced his intention to join that club in 2016, setting a launch date for the end of 2018. Notably, Mexico City's system gave residents a minute of warning before its deadly 8.1 magnitude earthquake in 2017. ![]() ShakeAlertLA is not the first alert system of its kind: Mexico, Japan, and several other countries already have EEW systems in place.
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