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Crowdsourcing speeds up earthquake monitoring
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2019-04-03
发布年2019
语种英语
国家美国
领域地球科学
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Data produced by Internet users can help to speed up the detection of earthquakes. Fast and accurate information is essential in the case of earthquakes: Epicentre location, depth and magnitude are minimum requirements to reliably estimate their possibly catastrophic consequences. An international team of scientists has presented a method to combine in real time data from seismic networks with information derived from users looking for earthquake information on specific websites, the smartphone LastQuake app and via Twitter. This method significantly reduces the time needed to detect and locate those earthquakes that are felt by the public. The team reported about their results in the journal Science Advances.

Robert J. Steed, Amaya Fuenzalida and Remy Bossu of the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) in France carried out the research with colleagues from France, Hungary and Germany. The EMSC is one of the top global earthquake information centers which distributes global seismic data for free to the public via its websites (http://www.emsc-csem.org, m.emsc.eu) and its LastQuake smartphone app and Twitter. It also promotes the use of crowdsourcing to collect eyewitness reports, photos and videos following earthquakes in order to improve situational awareness. This research was done in collaboration with István Bondár (MTA CSFK), an expert in seismic location and the global earthquake monitoring service of the German Centre for Geosciences, GEOFON, which is among the fastest sources for earthquake information world-wide. GEOFON operates a network of around one hundred stations and combines this real-time data with that of other open networks to automatically analyze earthquake activity world-wide.

Usually within 3 to 8 minutes after an earthquake, a software developed at GFZ is able to compute location and magnitude of the earthquake. This information is made available online and shared immediately with partner organizations. The new method to compute location can accelerate the detection time to only 1 to 3 minutes for felt earthquakes. After feeling an earthquake, people tend to rapidly seek information from the Internet or tweet about their observations. The sudden increase in demand for earthquake information from websites like the EMSC can be detected and an approximate determination made of their geographical origin. This crowdsourcing data collected by the EMSC, in combination with seismic data provided by GFZ, accelerates the detection of felt earthquakes. The algorithm incorporates usage of the EMSC websites and the EMSC's smartphone app "LastQuake" as well as searching for the word "earthquake" in 59 different languages on Twitter.

The team used the crowdsourcing approach to analyze more than 1500 earthquakes during the years 2016 and 2017. The time required to arrive at a reliable detection could be reduced by on average more than a minute compared to the analysis of only seismic data.

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Title of Study:
Robert J. Steed, Amaya Fuenzalida, Rémy Bossu, István Bondár, Andres Heinloo, Aurelien Dupont, Joachim Saul, Angelo Strollo, "Crowdsourcing triggers rapid, reliable earthquake locations" (Science Advances, April 2019, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau9824)

Contact Information:
Robert Steed (English) (Data Analyst and Software Engineer at EMSC)
Tel.: +33 649847334
Email: robsteed@gmail.com, robert.steed@emsc-csem.org

Rémy Bossu (English, French language) (Secretary General of European Mediterranean Seismic Centre (EMSC))
Tel.: +33 685541809
E-Mail: bossu_remy@yahoo.fr , bossu@emsc-csem.org

Dr. Joachim Saul (German and English)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ)
Tel.: +49 331 288-1267
E-Mail: joachim.saul@gfz-potsdam.de

Media Inquiries:
Josef Zens
Tel.: +49 (0)331 288 1040
E-Mail: josef.zens@gfz-potsdam.de

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条目标识符http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/114417
专题地球科学
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