The Importance of Smartphones as Public Earthquake-Information Tools and Tools for the Rapid Engagement with Eyewitnesses: A Case Study of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Sequence

Bossu, Rémy; Laurin, Maud; Mazet‐Roux, Gilles; Roussel, Frédéric; Steed, Robert

doi:10.1785/0220150147

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“…Bossu et al [2015Bossu et al [ , 2016 describe the collection of quick eye-witness reports from people within a few tens of minutes after a felt-earthquake occurrence. Bossu et al [2015Bossu et al [ , 2016 describe the collection of quick eye-witness reports from people within a few tens of minutes after a felt-earthquake occurrence.…”

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MyShake: Initial observations from a global smartphone seismic network

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2016

Geophysical Research Letters

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MyShake is a global smartphone seismic network that harnesses the power of crowdsourcing. In the first 6 months since the release of the MyShake app, there were almost 200,000 downloads. On a typical day about 8000 phones provide acceleration waveform data to the MyShake archive. The on‐phone app can detect and trigger on P waves and is capable of recording magnitude 2.5 and larger events. More than 200 seismic events have been recorded so far, including events in Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, and across North America. The largest number of waveforms from a single earthquake to date comes from the M5.2 Borrego Springs earthquake in Southern California, for which MyShake collected 103 useful three‐component waveforms. The network continues to grow with new downloads from the Google Play store everyday and expands rapidly when public interest in earthquakes peaks such as during an earthquake sequence.

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confidence: 99%

“…Multiple efforts are underway using smartphones to detect earthquakes. Bossu et al [2015Bossu et al [ , 2016 describe the collection of quick eye-witness reports from people within a few tens of minutes after a felt-earthquake occurrence. Multiple efforts make use of the accelerometer.…”

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MyShake: Initial observations from a global smartphone seismic network

Kong

Allen

Schreier³

2016

Geophysical Research Letters

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“…Prior to the event of disaster, warnings can be disseminated and received via social media (Martín et al, 2017;Yates & Paquette, 2011;Chavez et al, 2010;Chatfield & Brajawidagda, 2013;Acar and Muraki, 2011;Bossu et al, 2015). Information pertaining to disaster warnings were spread through social medias by the disaster organizations (such as InaTEWS) and local authorities (such as in County of Fort Bend, US and Moorehead, Minneseto, US) to inform the public of the disaster.…”

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“…On the other hand, social media is also useful in signalling and detecting disasters (Bossu et al, 2015). During the Ghorka earthquake that strikes Nepal in 2011, LastQuake used share eyewitnesses' testimonies and observations from the microblogging site Twitter, web-browser add-ons, and a smartphone application (Android and iOS).…”

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Role of Social Media in Disaster Management

2019

IJPHCS

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Background: Communication breakdown is one of the major problems that occur during disaster event, despite its importance in disaster management. In recent years, the social media, which has gained its popularity and expanded its function, provides a promising solution in disaster management over traditional communication. This paper aims to determine the role of social media in disaster management cycle and to create a framework for the application. Materials and Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted systematically using PubMed, Google Scholar, Science-direct and Scopus with keywords of role of social media OR social media AND disaster event OR natural disaster. The literature searched was limited to documented natural disaster for the past ten years, open source articles, original article and reported in English language. Primary screening of title and abstract involved 128 articles, from there, 90 articles were excluded. Secondary eligibility screening of the remaining 38 articles, resulted in 14 articles which were then synthesized and reviewed in this manuscript. Result: A framework was produced pertaining to role of social media according to disaster management cycle. In mitigation phase the role of social media includes incorporation of risk reduction and preventative activities. Further into preparedness phase, social media provides disaster warnings, implement crisis communication activities and signal/detect disaster. Further to response phase, the role includes deliver and analyse news coverage of disaster, provide and receive disaster respond information, send and receive request for assistance and reconnect family members. Finally, in the recovery phase, social media raises donation and awareness, encourage volunteerism and provide/receive information on recovery and rebuilding process. This review highlighted the dynamic and complexity of social media functions in providing better communication approach during disaster management. Conclusion: Social media certainly has the capacity to become an alternative mode of communication to complement traditional communication during disaster. However, drawbacks from using social media and its implications in disaster management need to be considered as well.

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