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Media and Press : How to use our information and why partnering with us
(Before It's News)
The best independent earthquake reporting website in the world
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This page is important for the media and the press, as based on our daily experience, most earthquake reports we see are OR not accurate at all OR are far too simple. The main reason being that only a very few number of journalists are really understanding how earthquakes work and what to expect when earthquake data arrives on their desk.
- Very recently the News anchor of a News Show, watched by more than a million people, reported that a Magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck at 25 km from the Japanese coast. There were no reports of damage or injuries. Quiet surprising, not ?
He has made only a small error in distance, the epicenter was not at 25 km from the coast but at more than 150 km from the coast. If the distance in his report would have been correct, the damage would have been considerable and people would have been injured or even killed.
- Another big mistake most journalists are making is only looking at Magnitudes. We see sometimes huge bold titles of major earthquakes of +M6, at a depth of 500 km. These journalists are afterwards surprised that the quake was barely felt by the people. Not understanding the relation in between Magnitude and depth is a major factor of understated or overstated reports.
- Most agencies are just copy/paste AP / AFP / Reuters or other agencies reports. Thats just fine of course, these are mostly accurate. The press agencies are knowing what they do, are writing a few lines of an interview with a seismologist but go rarely into the details. If the local agency journalist has felt the earthquake, their first hand reports are just great. Unfortunately, most dangerous earthquakes are occurring in remote areas in the world or in areas the western world sees as remote. Often these remote locations have nearby cities of hundred thousands op people or even millions like in China.
If BREAKING NEWS is one of your reporting goals, waiting for data can be irritating waiting time. We and even more are readers may be of great help.
Earthquake-Report.com wants to be your partner for earthquake news. Consider us as an “added value” on top of your normal information coming from USGS, EMSC, GEOFON, or your local seismological agency.
Why should you consider picking up information from earthquake-report.com ?
a) we are free – rare to find such CC (Creative Commons) information for free on the internet and open to redistribute it.
Donations from individual persons from all over the world are filling up the nano-budget we need to have to accomplish our tasks.
b) No other site in the world has so many “structured” I Have Felt It reports like earthquake-report.com. The way they are describing what they felt is “dominant” for what the outcome of the earthquake will be. We give you the permission to use our “I Have Felt It” reports as long as you stipulate that they are from “earthquake-report.com” (wee below).
c) Our EQA (Early Quake Alert) is often alerting us only 1 or 2 minutes after a quake happens, thats the earliest in the business. You may find earthquake information in our site before anybody else has been writing about it. Ask our readers, they know it since a long time.
d) The layer earthquake-report.com adds to the scientific information of the official agencies is merely the Human Impact of an earthquake. On top of what we are receiving from our readers we will scan official and other reports for eventual damage and eventual injuries.
e) James Daniell’s CATDAT earthquake damage database gives us information about the impact of similar earthquakes in a certain radius around the epicenter, including the damage and the number of injured or killed. This information has a huge importance for earthquakes in remote areas where communication with the people around the epicenter can take more than a day to reach the outside world.
f) Our twitter accounts are not only lightning fast, they are also publishing some “I Have Felt It” reports, titles of in-depths reports and even the GEO location of the epicenter. As we are reporting the earthquake data from 3 different seismological sources, you are able to make your average yourself.
Seismology is NOT an exact science and incoming data has to be carefully recalculated by the agencies, which contrasts with your relentless request to get more precise data. We are offering an in between report.
g) on top of it you get Rodger Wilson’s daily volcanic overview
Partner with us and use our information in your reports.
Your readers do want the best information possible and we provide it for you.
Mentioning where this information comes from will also empower us.
You do not have to request us to use our information, just use it and mark “according to specialised website earthquake-report.com”.
The earthquake-report.com volunteer team
2012-12-30 07:01:58
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