JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

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[M-ZZ41] [EJ] Communicating Hazard and Risk - From Scientific Information to Community Involvement

Sat. May 20, 2017 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 301B (International Conference Hall 3F)

convener:Naoshi Hirata(Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo), Danijel Schorlemmer(GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences), Reo Kimura(University of Hyogo), Shoji Ohtomo(Konan Women's University), Chairperson:Naoshi Hirata(Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo), Chairperson:Reo Kimura(School/Graduate School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo), Chairperson:Danijel Schorlemmer(GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences), Chairperson:Shoji Ohtomo(Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Konan Women's University)

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

[MZZ41-02] Citizen Earthquake Science in Taiwan: From Science to Hazard Mitigation

★Invited papers

*Wen-Tzong Liang1, Jian-Cheng Lee1, Nai-Chi Hsiao2, Kate Huihsuan Chen3, Simon C. Lin4 (1.Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, 2.Seismological Center, Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan, 3.Dept. Earth Science, National Taiwan Normal Univ., 4.Academia Sincia Grid Computing Centre, Taiwan)

Keywords: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.