USGS “Did You Feel It?”—Science and lessons from 20 years of citizen science-based macroseismology

V Quitoriano, DJ Wald - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The US Geological Survey (USGS)“Did You Feel It?”(DYFI) system is an automatic method
for rapidly collecting macroseismic intensity (MI) data from internet users' shaking and …

Macroseismic intensity assessment method for web questionnaires

P Tosi, P Sbarra, V De Rubeis… - Seismological …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Macroseismic investigation with data collected through webbased questionnaires is today
routinely applied by most important seismological institutions, such as the US Geological …

What to expect when you are expecting earthquake early warning

SE Minson, ES Cochran, JK Saunders… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a strategy for earthquake early warning (EEW) alerting that focuses on providing
users with a target level of performance for their shaking level of interest (for example …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring the depth and magnitude of pre-instrumental earthquakes from intensity attenuation curves

P Sbarra, P Burrato, V De Rubeis… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
The Italian historical earthquake record is among the richest worldwide; as such it allows for
the development of advanced techniques for retrieving quantitative information by …

The importance of on-request reports for the correct assessment of low macroseismic intensities: the experience of “Hai Sentito Il Terremoto”

P Sbarra, P Tosi, V De Rubeis, D Sorrentino - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
The lower degrees of the macroseismic scales are estimated mainly using the diagnostic
related to the percentage of people who felt the earthquake (“felt” percentage). However …

The Belgian traditional macroseismic (BTM) database of the twentieth century

B Neefs, K Van Noten, K Vanneste… - Journal of Seismology, 2024 - Springer
Macroseismic intensity data have been gathered continuously in Belgium since the start of
the twentieth century. In this study, we review the applied survey practices used over the …

Quantification of earthquake diagnostic effects to assess low macroseismic intensities

P Sbarra, P Tosi, V De Rubeis, D Sorrentino - Natural Hazards, 2020 - Springer
A large amount of data about earthquake effects, supplied by citizens through a web-based
questionnaire, enabled the analysis of the occurrence of many of the effects on humans and …

Incorporating intensity distance attenuation into PLUM ground‐motion‐based earthquake early warning in the United States: The APPLES configuration

JK Saunders, ES Cochran, JJ Bunn, AS Baltay… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We develop Attenuated ProPagation of Local Earthquake Shaking (APPLES), a
new configuration for the United States West Coast version of the Propagation of Local …

Modified Mercalli intensities for the M7. 8 Kaikōura (New Zealand) 14 November 2016 earthquake derived from 'felt detailed'and 'felt rapid'online questionnaires

T Goded, N Horspool, S Canessa… - Bulletin of the New …, 2017 - bulletin.nzsee.org.nz
This paper describes the shaking intensity levels caused by the M7. 8 Kaikōura earthquake
of 14/11/2016 according to the information from the two current GeoNet online …

Uncertainty in ground‐motion‐to‐intensity conversions significantly affects earthquake early warning alert regions

JK Saunders, AS Baltay, SE Minson… - The Seismic …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We examine how the choice of ground‐motion‐to‐intensity conversion equations (GMICEs)
in earthquake early warning (EEW) systems affects resulting alert regions. We find that …