Personal testimonies like this are not only interesting but also useful. Scientists can use information like this to help understand how ground shaking varies from place to place after an earthquake and also to give us measurements to compare modern earthquakes to historical ones (ie earthquakes that occurred before modern seismometers were able to record them but which we have written reports of what people felt at the time) In the US these felt reports are collected by the USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/ In Europe you can do it via the EMSC LastQuake app on your smartphone https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.emsc_csem.lastquake In the UK the BGS have an online questionaire http://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/questionnaire/EqQuestIntro.html
For this event (the largest in Oklahoma's history) the USGS received obver 60,000 "did you feel it " community responses http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006jxs#dyfi
Personal testimonies like this are not only interesting but also useful. Scientists can use information like this to help understand how ground shaking varies from place to place after an earthquake and also to give us measurements to compare modern earthquakes to historical ones (ie earthquakes that occurred before modern seismometers were able to record them but which we have written reports of what people felt at the time)
ReplyDeleteIn the US these felt reports are collected by the USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/
In Europe you can do it via the EMSC LastQuake app on your smartphone https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.emsc_csem.lastquake
In the UK the BGS have an online questionaire http://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/questionnaire/EqQuestIntro.html
For this event (the largest in Oklahoma's history) the USGS received obver 60,000 "did you feel it " community responses http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006jxs#dyfi
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