I live in San Francisco, and after the recent South Napa earthquake, I'm asking the major tech companies of Silicon Valley like Facebook, Apple and Google to help build a fully functional early warning earthquake network for California. It's a fact that a major earthquake will hit California in the next 30 years. Thousands of people will die. There will be billions of dollars worth of damage. Having an early warning of up to a minute in advance will save lives.

I care about this because I have personally experienced an 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia. Even the aftershocks, which went on for months, reached 7.9 on the Richter scale. It is devastating. The thought of an earthquake of that size hitting California without warning is a scary prospect.

If we win this petition, this network will save lives. Similar networks in Japan and Mexico have been proven to be extremely effective. This network might even end up saving the lives of the very people who make a living in Silicon Valley. Imagine the difference an early warning network might have made in 1906, 1989 and now in 2014.

If we don’t get the word out and get a fully functional network up and running, a major earthquake will devastate California in the very near future.

It's a shame that Silicon Valley hasn’t already donated the $80 million required to build the network that would help to protect the state they call home. If countries such as Japan and Mexico have benefited from an innovative early warning system for earthquakes, so should California - the center of the world's technology industry.

Show your support for the California Integrated Seismic Network. Sign the petition now.

Even seconds make a difference in an earthquake. There's no time to waste.