Internet Users as Seismic Sensors for Improved Earthquake Response

Bossu, Rémy; Mazet‐Roux, Gilles; Douet, Vincent; Rives, Sergio; Marin, Sylvie; Aupetit, Michaël

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“…Internet-based systems that do not rely on social networking are also feasible. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) has implemented a system to map out the felt region of an earthquake by geocoding the IP addresses of people visiting its Web site (Bossu et al 2008). The rapid increase in Web visits is often EMSC's first indication that an earthquake has occurred.…”

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OMG Earthquake! Can Twitter Improve Earthquake Response?

Earle

Guy

Buckmaster

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Seismological Research Letters

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Seismological Research Letters

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“…Jongman et al, 2015). Social media posts can also be used to locate earthquakes within tens of seconds of their occurrence (Bossu et al, 2008(Bossu et al, , 2018Earle et al, 2010;Steed et al, 2019). Here, rather than relying on a quantitative survey based on large-scale keywords or hashtags statistics or utilizing website traffic analysis combined with geolocalization, we built our study on the contextual analysis of qualitative content of selected Twitter conversational threads.…”

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Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events

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Abstract. Twitter is an established social media platform valued by scholars as an open way to disseminate scientific information and to publicly discuss research results. Scientific discussions on Twitter are viewed by the media, who can then pass on information to the wider public. Social media is used widely by geoscientists, but there is little documentation currently available regarding the benefits or limitations of this for the scientist or the public. Here, we use the example of two 2018 earthquake-related events that were widely commented on by geoscientists on Twitter: the Palu Mw 7.5 earthquake and related tsunami in Indonesia and the long-duration Mayotte island seismovolcanic crisis in the Indian Ocean. We built our study on a content and contextual analysis of selected Twitter threads about the geophysical characteristics of these events. From the analysis of these two examples, we show that Twitter promotes a very rapid building of knowledge in the minutes to hours and days following an event via an efficient exchange of information and active discussion between the scientists themselves and the public. We discuss the advantages and potential pitfalls of this relatively novel way of making scientific information accessible to scholarly peers and lay people. We argue that scientific discussion on Twitter breaks down the traditional “ivory tower” of academia, contributes to the growing trend towards open science, and may help people to understand how science is developed and, in turn, to better understand the risks related to natural/environmental hazards.

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“…For around a decade now, earthquake scientists have begun to use information extracted from social media, websites, or app earthquake reporting, to automatically detect and locate earthquakes within tens of seconds of their occurrence time (Bossu et al, 2008(Bossu et al, , 2018Earle et al, 2010;Steed et al, 2019). Here, rather than relying on such a quantitative survey based on large-scale keywords or hashtags statistics, or website traffic analysis combined with geolocalisation, we build our study on the contextual analysis of qualitative content of selected Twitter conversational threads.…”

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Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events

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<p>Twitter is an established social media platform valued by scholars as an open way to disseminate scientific information and to publicly discuss research results. Scientific discussions on Twitter are widely viewed by the media who can then pass on information to the public. Here, we take the example of two 2018 earthquake-related events which were widely commented on Twitter by geoscientists: the Palu Mw7.5 earthquake and tsunami in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the long-duration (more than one year) seismo-volcanic crisis Mayotte island in the Comoros archipelago between Africa and Madagascar. We build our analysis on a content and contextual analysis of selected Twitter threads about the geophysical characteristics of these events. Most authors of this paper have participated to these Twitter threads and related discussions, and regularly explain geohazard events via this social media. From the two selected examples, we show that Twitter promotes very rapid building of knowledge &#8211; in the minutes to hours and days following an event &#8211; via an efficient exchange of information and active discussion between the scientists themselves and with the public. Combining these results with our own experience of communicating geohazard science via Twitter, we discuss the advantages and potential pitfalls of this relatively novel way to make scientific information accessible to scholarly peers and to lay people. We argue that scientific discussion on Twitter breaks down the traditional &#8220;ivory towers&#8221; of academia. It participates to the growing trends towards open science, making science accessible to any non-academics or citizen scientists who can follow and participate in the discussion. This may help people to understand how science is developed, and, in the case of natural/environmental hazards, to better understand their risks.</p>

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Internet Users as Seismic Sensors for Improved Earthquake Response

Cited by 39 publications

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OMG Earthquake! Can Twitter Improve Earthquake Response?

OMG Earthquake! Can Twitter Improve Earthquake Response?

Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events

Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events

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