Word: mileti
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...ordinary citizens, a 30-second warning might be of limited use unless they had rehearsed what to do. Where it might be most helpful, according to sociologist Dennis Mileti, a warning expert at Colorado State University, "is in schools and offices where people can practice responding to bells." Here too Japan has led the way. Its communities regularly conduct earthquake warning drills, while in California such drills are done only sporadically in some schools and workplaces. Still, most Californians know that when the ground starts to rumble, they must get away from the windows, duck beneath a sturdy table, stand...