Systems and methods for early warning of seismic events

A method for effecting situational emergency measures in response to detected seismic events, the method comprising:

• at each of a plurality of seismic sensors, detecting a physical phenomenon associated with seismic events and generating a corresponding electronic signal representative of the detected physical phenomenon;
• receiving, from each seismic sensor, the corresponding electronic signal at a data acquisition unit;
• determining, at the data acquisition unit, that the received electronic signals are indicative of a P-wave associated with a seismic event and computing, at the data acquisition unit, one or more estimated seismic event characteristics based on the received electronic signals;
• communicating the one or more estimated seismic event characteristics from the data processing unit to a local device embodied separately from the data acquisition unit;
• measuring, with an additional sensor, one or more phenomena independent of the physical phenomenon associated with the seismic event;
• determining, by the local device, a situational state of industrial equipment at a specific location of the local device based on at least the one or more measured phenomena independent of the physical phenomenon associated with the seismic event;
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• after determining the situational state, determining, by at least one of the data acquisition unit and the local device, local situational seismic emergency measures to be implemented by the local device based on the estimated characteristics of the seismic event and the situational state of the industrial equipment at the specific location of the local device.