Everbridge collaborates with Caltech and ShakeAlertTM
on technology to deliver earthquake early warning notifications
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2018--
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Great
ShakeOut, an annual opportunity to practice how to be safe during
major earthquakes. This important awareness initiative began in southern
California in 2008. Today’s Great ShakeOut will be the largest
earthquake drill ever conducted in California, and Everbridge
(NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management and
enterprise safety software applications to help keep people safe and
businesses running, is poised to participate in many of the drills
across the state.
The Great ShakeOut drill is scheduled for 10:18 a.m. PT today, October
18, at which time neighbors, students, and coworkers will “Drop, Cover,
and Hold On” as if it were a real earthquake. Many organizations will
use the event to test their Everbridge alert platforms, sending critical
information regarding safety, shelter, and evacuation to their
communities.
Everbridge currently has a pilot project underway with the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop and test a system that can
deliver ShakeAlert
within the standards developed by the United States Geological Survey
(USGS) for push notifications. ShakeAlert is an earthquake early warning
(EEW) system that aims to detect significant earthquakes faster than
current systems.
“Everbridge is committed to developing a platform that can deliver
earthquake early warning notifications within seconds,” said Margaret
Vinci, Manager of the Office of Earthquake Programs and ShakeAlert SoCal
Regional Coordinator at Caltech.
“As part of our commitment to public safety, Everbridge is continuously
looking for ways to leverage risk data in order to provide life-saving
technologies as quickly and as reliably as possible,” said Imad Mouline,
CTO of Everbridge. “Over 50 million people reside in the combined states
of California, Oregon, and Washington, and we are dedicated to providing
them with the most advanced tools and functionality to ensure earthquake
preparedness and notification.”
Everbridge serves millions of residents in 54 out of California’s 58
counties, including the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose,
and Sacramento. Among the new tools available for earthquake
preparedness and recovery is the Everbridge mobile app, which sends push
notifications based on smartphone location, providing alerts about
evacuation areas, road conditions, emergencies that require sheltering
in place, and more. App downloads are available from the Apple
Store for iOS devices and the Google
Play Store for Android devices.
About Everbridge
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides
enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate
organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to keep
people safe and businesses running. During public safety threats such as
active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather
conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages,
cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain
interruptions, over 4,000 global customers rely on the company’s
Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and
assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist,
automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through
the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and
track progress on executing response plans. The company’s platform sent
over 2 billion messages in 2017 and offers the ability to reach over 500
million people in more than 200 countries and territories, including the
entire mobile populations on a country-wide scale in Sweden, the
Netherlands, the Bahamas, Singapore, Greece, Cambodia, and a number of
the largest states in India. The company’s critical communications and
enterprise safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident
Management, Safety Connection™, IT Alerting, Visual Command Center®,
Crisis Commander®, Community Engagement™ and Secure Messaging.
Everbridge serves 9 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 8 of the 10 largest
U.S.-based investment banks, all 25 of the 25 busiest North American
airports, six of the 10 largest global consulting firms, six of the 10
largest global auto makers, all four of the largest global accounting
firms, four of the 10 largest U.S.-based health care providers and four
of the 10 largest U.S.-based health insurers. Everbridge is based in
Boston and Los Angeles with additional offices in Lansing, San
Francisco, Beijing, Kolkata, London, Oslo and Stockholm. For more
information, visit www.everbridge.com,
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