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[MZZ41-02] Citizen Earthquake Science in Taiwan: From Science to Hazard Mitigation
★招待講演
キーワード：citizen science, crowdsourcing, Taiwan Earthquake Science Information System, Taiwan Earthquake Research Center
Taiwan is located at seismically highly active area, where is a convergent plate boundary zone between the Eurasian plate and the Philippine Sea plate. To bring seismology in a simple way to citizens at school and home, we are incorporating the Quake-Catcher Network (QCN) program into an educational seismic network that is maintained by teachers in more than 200 high schools in the whole island of Taiwan. We established a web-based educational platform so that users are encouraged to interact with these collected seismic waveform data and even to conduct further signal analysis on their own. In addition, to collect field observations for any earthquake-induced ground damages, such as surface fault rupture, landslide, rock fall, liquefaction, and landslide-triggered dam or lake, etc., we are developing an earthquake damage reporting system for public but particularly relying on trained volunteers who have taken a series of workshops, organized by this project. This Taiwan Earthquake Scientific Report (TSER) system is based on the Ushahidi mapping platform, which has been widely used for crowdsourcing. Some online games and materials for educational purposes on learning earthquakes will be ready in a near real-time manner for students and teachers. All These constructed products are now operated at the Taiwan Earthquake Research Center (TEC). With these newly developed platforms and materials, we are aiming not only to raise the earthquake awareness and preparedness, but also to encourage public participation in earthquake science in Taiwan.