Sentences with phrase «risking false alarms»

Because a quake's strength isn't clear at first rupture, emergency response managers face a choice when issuing warnings: Issue alerts early and often (left), which could provide as much as 48 seconds of warning that light shaking might occur but risk false alarms; or wait to issue alerts until the size of the quake is better known (right) but risk the warnings arriving too late — providing an 8 - second warning in this hypothetical case.

At a basic, subconscious level, men treat romance like a house fire, they think «it's better to risk a false alarm than to fail picking up on heat» which obviously isn't always ideal.

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Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since Trump took office, that Hawaii's false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with North Korea.

So at the end of a 13 - part video series raising false alarm about cancer risk in rice, Dr. Greger finally gets to the only study that actually looked at the evidence... and found no statistically significant risk of cancer, even with the highest level of rice consumption.

If everyone has been duly educated, you run a lower risk of setting off a false alarm.

Public officials with the authority to order hurricane evacuations face a difficult trade - off between risks to life and costly false alarms.

Extremely hypersensitive pattern detection was vital, because there was little cost for frequent false alarms but a great risk of becoming a snack by missing detecting a real leopard.

found that there are carbon monoxide alarms available to buy online in the UK that are not compliant with the BS EN 50291 industry safety standard; further notes that such noncompliant alarms can fail to detect dangerous levels of carbon monoxide, leaving consumers with a false sense of confidence and thus exposing consumers to the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning; notes that eBay, Amazon and Robert Dyas have all taken positive steps to remove dangerous carbon monoxide alarms and detectors from their product lines; and calls on the Government to ensure that all carbon monoxide alarms on the market in the UK are compliant with the BS EN 50291 standard.»