The Key Role of Eyewitnesses in Rapid Impact Assessment of Global Earthquakes

Bossu, Rémy; Steed, Robert; Mazet‐Roux, Gilles; Roussel, Frédéric; Etivant, Caroline; Frobert, Laurent; Godey, S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21753-6_25

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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

Kong

Allen

Schreier³

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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“…Argentina (Le Coz et al, 2016), Australia (Madsen and O'Mullan, 2013;Yates and Partridge, 2015;Haworth et al, 2016;Hung et al, 2016;Zhong et al, 2016;Haworth, 2018), Belgium (Mossoux et al, 2016), Brazil (Marchezini et al, 2017;Hirata et al, 2018), Canada (Tappenden, 2015;Díaz et al, 2016;Rieger, 2016), Montserrat (Loughlin et al, 2002), Chile (Usón et al, 2016), China (Peng, 2017;Qi et al, 2017;Svensson, 2017), Colombia (Hermelin and Bedoya, 2008;Loaiza et al, 2017), Cambodia (Aalst et al, 2008), Costa Rica (Aalst et al, 2008), Czech Republic (Raška and Brázdil, 2015;Panek et al, 2017), Denmark (Frigerio et al, 2017), Democratic Republic of the Congo (De Albuquerque et al, 2016), Ecuador (Ibadango et al, 2007;Stone et al, 2014;Mothes et al, 2015;Armijos et al, 2017), Europe (Bossu et al, 2012;Wehn et al, 2015a;Maltoni et al, 2017). Finland (Frigerio et al, 2017), Global (Tapia et al, 2014;Bossu et al, 2016;Kong et al, 2016;Ramchurn et al, 2016;Jones et al, 2017;Ludwig et al, 2017), Grenada (Canevari-Luzardo et al, 2017), Haiti (Ghosh et al, 2011;...…”

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Global Mapping of Citizen Science Projects for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Citizen science for disaster risk reduction (DRR) holds huge promise and has demonstrated success in advancing scientific knowledge, providing early warning of hazards, and contributed to the assessment and management of impacts. While many existing studies focus on the performance of specific citizen science examples, this paper goes beyond this approach to present a systematic global mapping of citizen science used for DRR in order to draw out broader insights across diverse methods, initiatives, hazards and country contexts. The systematic mapping analyzed a total of 106 cases of citizen science applied to DRR across all continents. Unlike many existing reviews of citizen science initiatives, relevance to the disaster risk context led us to 'open up' our mapping to a broader definition of what might constitute citizen science, including participatory research and narrative-based approaches. By taking a wider view of citizen science and opening up to other disciplinary practices as valid ways of knowing risks and hazards, we also capture these alternative examples and discuss their relevance for aiding effective decision-making around risk reduction. Based on this analysis we draw out lessons for future research and practice of citizen science for DRR including the need to: build interconnections between disparate citizen science methods and practitioners; address multi-dimensionality within and across hazard cycles; and develop principles and frameworks for evaluating citizen science initiatives that not only ensure scientific competence but also attend to questions of equity, responsibility and the empowerment of those most vulnerable to disaster risk.

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“…12 To guarantee progress, this research consortium relies heavily on networks of seismographs, GPS devices and broader range of geophysical monitoring devices, which have been used continuously since the 1960s. Today's felts reports, witeness testimonies and data collections from devices combined with the portability of mobiles application continue to be a key element to the identification and decription of seimologcal events (Bossu et al, 2015). Whether interpreting their own observations or relying on the traces of a seismograph, 13 seismologists and observers make connections in order to establish relations between experience and science.…”

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Modes and Existences in Citizen Science

Mazel-Cabasse

2018

S&TS

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In the Bay Area of San Francisco, the earthquake contours are not easy to define: seismology is still a relatively recent science, and controversies around methods to evaluate the earthquake risk are constant. In this context, the invitation to think about the modes of citizen science is an opportunity to reflect on the modality of hybridized scientific practices as well as the process by which the plurality and complexity of the earthquake characteristics can be articulated, and sometime reconciled. Looking at different existences of the earthquake risk, the paper investigates different assemblages that question the clear-cut distinction between citizen science and science. I’ll situate the question of the mode of citizen science within the larger framework of interdisciplinarity knowledge infrastructures and the work on ‘mode of existence’ initiated by Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers (2009). Expanding our understanding with regard to how CS is performed opens the possibility of reconsidering the specific types of assemblages and infrastructures from which these modes emerge and on their distinct trajectories. It is also an invitation to make visible the integration processes, the communities, and the imaginations that “make” science.

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The Key Role of Eyewitnesses in Rapid Impact Assessment of Global Earthquakes

Cited by 9 publications

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MyShake: Initial observations from a global smartphone seismic network

MyShake: Initial observations from a global smartphone seismic network

Global Mapping of Citizen Science Projects for Disaster Risk Reduction

Modes and Existences in Citizen Science

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