A new approach may fine-tune estimates of the range of shaking from earthquakes and help define areas of potential damage.
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AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange Links Science with Small Towns
Scientists and students collaborate with communities to create a greener municipal building in Midway, Ga., and assess residents' vulnerability to warming climate in Brookline, Mass.
Crowdsourced Seismology
The seismologists of the world want to turn you into an earthquake detector.
Aurorasaurus Puts Thousands More Eyes on the Sky
Citizen scientists share real-time auroral sightings to advance research.
Internet Users Act as Earthquake Trackers
Armed with Internet connections, smartphones, and Twitter handles, citizens around the world are helping seismologists track earthquakes.
Radio Blackout! Ham Radio as an Operational and Scientific Instrument
Monitoring solar activity that disrupts communications can be helped by crowdsourced and automated reports from amateur radio operators.
Thriving Earth Exchange Hosts Community Science in Action Events
Three events at the American Geophysical Union’s 2014 Fall Meeting showcased how partnerships between scientists and the public can solve local problems.
Elders Recall an Earlier Tsunami on Indian Ocean Shores
Legacies of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami include recent interviews with lucid eyewitnesses to an obscure disaster in 1945. The accounts attest to coastal hazards in Oman, Iran, Pakistan, and India.
Crowdsourcing Digital Maps Using Citizen Geologists
Could citizen geologists help scientists make geological maps?