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 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 [[Category:Tornadoes]]
 [[Category:Smartphones]]
 [[Category:Geology]]

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 In the comic [[Megan]] talks about the app, suggesting how cool it is, but [[Cueball]] is upset. He seems to think that prediction of the earthquake coming is like a spoiler that ruins the experience of how an earthquake should be experienced. Apparently he prefers to simply be taken by surprise like most people are when an earthquake large enough to feel hits.
-He also personifies the {{w|tectonic plates}} (whose shifting positions causes the quake), saying that we should all feel the shaking the way the tectonic plate intended. The statement is usually one regarding to arts, such as a music lover might prefer to listen to older music from vinyl (including cracking sounds, etc.) instead of a remastered digital version, as it is, as the artist intended.
+He also personifies the {{w|tectonic plates}} (whose shifting positions causes the quake), saying that we should all feel the shaking the way the tectonic plate intended. The statement is usually one regarding to arts, such as a music lover might prefer to listen to older music from vinyl (including cracking sounds, etc.) instead of a remastered digital version, as it is, as the artist intended. Cueball seems to ascribe {{w|auteur theory}} to tectonic plates — a viewpoint rarely expressed in debates on either auteur theory or tectonic plates.{{cn}}
 In the title text Cueball mentions that he was fired from the {{w|National Weather Service}} five minutes after they hired him because the first thing he did was to rename {{w|tornado warnings}} as {{w|tornado}} spoiler alerts. A {{w|Spoiler (media)|spoiler alert}} is something used, for instance, when talking about a plot twist of a new movie, so that people who haven't seen the movie can avoid learning important details that would spoil the experience of seeing the movie. Cueball seems to genuinely wish to be surprised by these potentially lethal phenomena for which just minutes of warning may make the difference between life and death.

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 The system works through a network of sensors across the state that can detect {{w|P-waves}} from an {{w|earthquake}}, {{w|P-wave#As_an_earthquake_warning|which move faster}} than the {{w|S-waves}}, which cause most of the damage. In addition, the sensors send the warning electronically - at a significant fraction of the speed of light - much faster than either P-waves or S-waves. Because of these differences in speed, the network can send warnings through the app about 5-20 seconds before major shaking occurs, enough time for people to take cover under tables, run outside, etc. The farther you are away from the epicenter, the more warning time you have.
-In the comic [[Megan]] talks about the app, suggesting how cool it is, but [[Cueball]] is upset.  He seems to think that prediction of the earthquake coming is like a spoiler that ruins the experience of how an earthquake should be experienced.  Apparently he prefers to simply be taken by surprise like most people are when an earthquake large enough to feel hits.
+In the comic [[Megan]] talks about the app, suggesting how cool it is, but [[Cueball]] is upset. He seems to think that prediction of the earthquake coming is like a spoiler that ruins the experience of how an earthquake should be experienced. Apparently he prefers to simply be taken by surprise like most people are when an earthquake large enough to feel hits.
 He also personifies the {{w|tectonic plates}} (whose shifting positions causes the quake), saying that we should all feel the shaking the way the tectonic plate intended. The statement is usually one regarding to arts, such as a music lover might prefer to listen to older music from vinyl (including cracking sounds, etc.) instead of a remastered digital version, as it is, as the artist intended.

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 | number    = 2219
 | date      = October 23, 2019
-| title     = Will Allen Gives Earthquake Early Warnings
+| title     = Earthquake Early Warnings
-| image     = Will Allen holding fish.jpg
+| image     = earthquake_early_warnings.png
 | titletext = I was fired by the National Weather Service five minutes after they hired me for going into their code base and renaming all the tornado warnings to "tornado spoiler alerts."
 }}

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 | number    = 2219
 | date      = October 23, 2019
-| title     = Earthquake Early Warnings
+| title     = Will Allen Gives Earthquake Early Warnings
-| image     = earthquake_early_warnings.png
+| image     = Will Allen holding fish.jpg
 | titletext = I was fired by the National Weather Service five minutes after they hired me for going into their code base and renaming all the tornado warnings to "tornado spoiler alerts."
 }}