Cell phones in Japan could soon provide a vital warning seconds ahead of a major earthquake. NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and Softbank Mobile plan to develop a way to automatically funnel alerts to cell phones from a new government advance warning system. The amount of warning varies and could be anything from a few seconds to up to a minute. People closer to quakes epicenter get shorter warnings — and in some cases might get none at all — but researchers agree that the possibility of any warning is better than none.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2121488/earthquake-warnings-to-come-via-cell-phones-in-japan.html