Multi facility earthquake automation system and method

A distributed earthquake analysis and reporting system, the system comprising:

• a facility control system that obtains earthquake information sent from one or more seismic sensors, and sends the earthquake information over a network directly or indirectly to other facility control systems;
• wherein the facility control system responds to received earthquake information from the other facility control systems by configuring building systems, and the other facility control systems in response to the earthquake information sent over the network by the facility control system,
• wherein the facility control system further determines that an earthquake will occur in the vicinity of one or more buildings based upon the earthquake information sent from the one or more seismic sensors and the received earthquake information from the other facility control systems, and configuring the building systems includes:
• 1) sending shutdown control signals to the building systems;
• 2) sending output signals to an elevator controller for stopping elevators controlled by the elevator controller at a nearest floor within buildings and for opening doors of the stopped elevators, 3) sending output signals to an industrial machine controller for stopping industrial machinery, and 4) sending output signals to a water and natural gas controller for shutting off natural gas and any water not supplied for fire suppression, and
• wherein the facility control system further prepares new and/or updated earthquake information and transmits the new/updated earthquake information to other facility control systems in the form of earthquake vectors (EQ vector).