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Publications

Peer-reviewed

Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Umair Qazi, Julien Roch, Catherine Pennington, Vanessa Banks & Remy Bossu Landslide detection in real-time social media image streams Neural Computing and Applications, 24 May 2023
Rémy Bossu, Marina Corradini, Jean-Marc Cheny and Laure Fallou A social bot in support of crisis communication: 10-years of @LastQuake experience on Twitter Front. Commun., 23 March 2023 Sec. Disaster Communications - Volume 8
Henning Lilienkamp, Rémy Bossu, Fabrice Cotton, Francesco Finazzi, Matthieu Landès, Graeme Weatherill, Sebastian von Specht Utilization of Crowdsourced Felt Reports to Distinguish High-Impact from Low-Impact Earthquakes Globally within Minutes of an Event The Seismic Record (2023) 3 (1): 29–36 (February 28, 2023)
Corbet A, Fallou L, Calixte N., Hurbon L. et Calais E. La sismologie citoyenne, un révélateur des crises en Haïti. (Citizen Seismology, a Key Indicator of Crises in Haiti) Études caribéennes, no 52, Le dilemme d'Haïti : d'une crise à l'autre ? (Août 2022)
Corbet A., Fallou L., Calixte N., Hurbon L. and Calais E. From a Seismological Network to a Socio-Seismological One: A Citizen Science Experiment in Haïti to Reduce Seismic Risk: Analysis of a "Small Box" that Can Do a Lot. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 8(1): 2, pp. 1–11 (2023)
Laure Fallou, Marina Corradini, Rémy Bossu and Jean-Marc Cheny(2022). Preventing and debunking earthquake misinformation: Insights into EMSC’s practices Front. Commun., 22 December 2022 - Sec. Disaster Communications
Sarah Dryhurst, Femke Mulder, Irina Dallo, John R. Kerr, Sara K. McBride, Laure Fallou and Julia S. Becker(2022). Fighting misinformation in seismology: Expert opinion on earthquake facts vs. fiction Front. Earth Sci., 16 December 2022 - Sec. Geoscience and Society
Finazzi, F., I. Bondár, R. Bossu, and R. Steed (2022). A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling the Detection Capability of Smartphone Networks in Earthquake Early Warning Seismological Research Letters. XX, 1–17
Contreras, Wilkinson, Didem Aktas, Fallou, Bossu, and Landès. Intensity-Based Sentiment and Topic Analysis. The Case of the 2020 Aegean Earthquake. Front. Built Environ. (2022).
Fallou, L. Finazzi F., and Bossu R. Efficacy and Usefulness of an Independent Public Earthquake Early Warning System: A Case Study—The Earthquake Network Initiative in Peru. Seismological Research Letters (2022).
Rémy Bossu; Francesco Finazzi; Robert Steed; Laure Fallou; István Bondár (2021).“Shaking in 5 Seconds!”—Performance and User Appreciation Assessment of the Earthquake Network Smartphone‐Based Public Earthquake Early Warning System. Seismological Research Letters
Martin, S. S., Bossu, R., Steed, R., Landès, M., Srinagesh, D., Srinivas, D., & Hough, S. E. (2021). When Punjab Cried Wolf: How a Rumor Triggered an “Earthquake” in India. Seismological Society of America, 92(6), 3887-3898.
Kouskouna, V., Ganas, A., Kleanthi, M. et al. (2021).Evaluation of macroseismic intensity, strong ground motion pattern and fault model of the 19 July 2019 Mw5.1 earthquake west of Athens,J Seismol 25, 747–769
M. Böse, S. Julien-Laferrière, R. Bossu, and F. Massin (2021). Near Real-Time Earthquake Line-Source Models Derived from Felt Reports, Seismological Research Letters XX,1 –18.
Fallou Laure, Rémy Bossu, Matthieu Landès, Julien Roch, Frédéric Roussel, Robert Steed and Sylvain Julien-Laferrière (2020). Citizen Seismology Without Seismologists? Lessons Learned From Mayotte Leading to Improved Collaboration, Frontiers in Earth Science.
Chen, K. H., Bossu, R., & Liang, W. T. (2020). The Power of Citizen Seismology: Science and Social Impacts. Frontiers in Earth Science, 547.
Calais, E., Boisson, D., Symithe, S., Prépetit, C., Pierre, B., Ulyse, S., ... & Clouard, V. (2020). A socio-seismology experiment in Haiti. Frontiers in Earth Science, 426.
Bossu Rémy, Laure Fallou, Matthieu Landès, Frédéric Roussel, Sylvain Julien-Laferrière, Julien Roch and Robert Steed (2020). Rapid Public Information and Situational Awareness after the Nov. 26, 2019 Albania Earthquake: Lessons Learnt from the LastQuake System. Frontiers in Earth Science
Bondár István, Steed Robert, Roch Julien, Bossu Rémy, Heinloo Andres, Saul Joachim, Strollo Angelo, (2020). Accurate Locations of Felt Earthquakes Using Crowdsource Detections, Frontiers in Earth Science, vol 8, 272, doi=10.3389/feart.2020.00272, ISSN=2296-6463
Lacassin, R., Devès, M., Hicks, S., Ampuero, J. P., Bossu, R., Bruhat, L., ... & Gurney, J. (2020). Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events, Geoscience communication, 3 (1), 129-146
Calais, Eric, Dominique Boisson, Steeve Symithe, Roberte Momplaisir, Claude Prépetit, Sophia Ulysse, Guy Philippe Etienne et al. Monitoring Haiti’s Quakes with Raspberry Shake, Eos, 100 (2019)
Steed, R. J., Fuenzalida, A., Bossu, R., Bondár, I., Heinloo, A., Dupont, A., ... & Strollo, A. (2019). Crowdsourcing triggers rapid, reliable earthquake locations, Science Advances, 5(4), eaau9824
Appleby Arnold, S., Brockdorff, N, Fallou, L. and R. Bossu (2019). Truth, trust, and civic duty: Cultural factors in citizens perceptions of mobile phone apps and social media in disasters., Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Oct. 2019, pp. 1-13 DOI: 10.1111/1468-5973.12282
Laura Petersen, Emma Lundin, Laure Fallou, Johan Sjöström, David Lange, Rui Teixeira, Alexandre Bonavita. Resilience for whom? The general public’s tolerance levels as CI resilience criteria. IJCIP, 28:100340, 2020
Rémy Bossu, Robert Steed, Fréderic Roussel, Matthieu Landès, Amaya Fuenzalida, Emanuela Matrullo, Aurélien Dupont, Julien Roch, Laure Fallou (2019) App Earthquake Detection and Automatic Mapping of Felt Area, Seismological Research Letters, 90 (1): 305–312. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180185
Aftab Khan, Paul Denton, John Stevenson, Remy Bossu, Engaging citizen seismologists worldwide, Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 59, Issue 4, August 2018, Pages 4.15–4.18, https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/aty190
Hernandez, B., A., Le Pichon, J., Vergoz, P., Herry, L., Ceranna, C. Pilger, E. Marchetti, M. Ripepe, and R. Bossu. Estimating the Ground‐Motion Distribution of the 2016 Mw 6.2 Amatrice, Italy, Earthquake Using Remote Infrasound Observations. Seismological Research Letters (2018).
Laura Petersen, Laure Fallou, Grigore Havarneanu, Paul Reilly, Elisa Serafinelli, & Rémy Bossu. (2018). November 2015 Paris Terrorist Attacks and Social Media Use: Preliminary Findings from Authorities, Critical Infrastructure Operators and Journalists , In Kees Boersma, & Brian Tomaszewski (Eds.), ISCRAM 2018 Conference Proceedings – 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 629–638). Rochester, NY (USA): Rochester Institute of Technology
Bossu, R., Roussel, F., Fallou, L., Landès, M., Steed, R., Mazet-Roux, G., ... & Petersen, L. (2018). LastQuake: From Rapid Information to Global Seismic Risk Reduction, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.02.024
Bossu, R., Landès, M., Roussel, F., & Steed, R.. Felt Reports for Rapid Mapping of Global Earthquake Damage: The Doughnut Effect?, Seismological Research Letters, 89(1), 138-144. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220170129
Bossu, R., Roussel, F., Fallou, L., Landès, M., Steed, R., Mazet-Roux, G., ... & Petersen, L. (2018). LastQuake, un système d’information multicanal pour la réduction du risque sismique global, Proceedings of IMDR 2018, Reims
Adhikari S. R., Baysal, G., Dixit, A., Martin S., Landes M., Bossu R. and. Hough S.E. (2017) Towards A Unified Near-Field Intensity Map of the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, 33 (S1), p S21–S34
Bossu, R., M. Landès, F. Roussel, and S. Hough, Thumbnail based questionnaires for the rapid and efficient collection of macroseismic data from global earthquakes, SRL, 88 (1), doi :doi:10.1785/0220160120, 2017
Hough, S. E., Martin, S. S., Gahalaut, V., Joshi, A., Landes, M., & Bossu, R. (2016). A comparison of observed and predicted ground motions from the 2015 MW7. 8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake. Natural Hazards, 1-24.
Amorese, D.; Bossu, R. & Mazet-Roux, G. (2015), Automatic Clustering of Macroseismic Intensity Data Points from Internet Questionnaires: Efficiency of the Partitioning around Medoids (PAM), Seismological Research Letters, 86, 1171--1177
Bossu, R.; Laurin, M.; Mazet-Roux, G.; Roussel, F. & Steed, R. (2015), The importance of smartphones as public earthquake-information tools and tools for the rapid engagement with Eyewitnesses: A case study of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake sequence, Seismological Research Letters, 86(6), 1587--1592
Rémy Bossu, Sandrine Lefebvre, Yves Cansi, and Gilles Mazet Roux, Characterization of the 2011 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake Effects and Epicenter from Website Traffic Analysis Seismological Research Letter, January/February 2014
Stéphanie GODEY, Rémy BOSSU and Jocelyn GUILBERT, 2013, Improving the Mediterranean seismicity picture thanks to international collaborations, in press in JPCE
Bossu R., Mazet-Roux G., in New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice 2 (NMSOP-2),, An operational authoritative location scheme FNEP 2012
Libération, 31 janvier 2012, Les internautes font frémir le monde de la sismologie par Sylvestre Huet
Rémy Bossu, Sébastien Gilles, Gilles Mazet-Roux, Fréderic Roussel, Laurent Frobert, Linus Kamb, in Annals of Geophysics 54, 6, 2011, Flash sourcing, or rapid detection and characterization of earthquake effects through website traffic analysis
Rémy Bossu, Paul Earl, 2011, On the use of the Internet to collect earthquake information, in Annals of Geophysics 54, 6,
NERIES-JRA3, 2010, Utilization of ELER V2 and Improvements of EMSC Earthquake Impact Estimation Method
Hanka, W., Saul, J., Weber, B., Becker, J., Harjadi, P., Rudloff, A., Bossu, R.; Ottemöller, L. & Clinton, J. (2010). Real-time earthquake monitoring for tsunami warning in the Indian Ocean and beyond. Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences, 10(12).
Rémy Bossu, Sébastien Gilles, Gilles Mazet-Roux, Frédéric Roussel in Comparative Emergency Management, Examining Global and Regional Responsoses to Disasters, Citizen Seismology: How to Involve the Public in Earthquake Response
Exclusif : un nouvel outil transforme les internautes en sismologues. Futura Sciences, 10/04/2009 Special feature on the EMSC with a detailled presentation of its activities.
Stéphanie GODEY, Gilles MAZET-ROUX, Rémy BOSSU, Sophie MERRER and Jocelyn GUILBERT, 2009 Ten years of seismicity in the Euro-Mediterranean region: Panorama of the EMSC bulletin 1998-2007
Rémy Bossu, Gilles Mazet-Roux, Vincent Douet, Sergio Rives, Sylvie Marin, Michael Aupetit, in Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 89, Issue 25, page 225-226, 17 June 2008, Internet Users as Seismic Sensors for Improved Earthquake Response
Domenico Giardini, Torild Van Eck, Rémy Bossu, Stefan Wiemer, in Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 89, Issue 24, page 219, 10 June 2008, Networking Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Seismology in Europe
Rémy BOSSU. Web hits used to pinpoint earthquakes. New Scientist, 30/06/2008 Highlight on the earthquake detection technic used by the EMSC.
Stéphanie GODEY, Rémy BOSSU, Jocelyn GUILBERT, Gilles MAZET-ROUX, 2006 The Euro-Mediterranean Bulletin: A Comprehensive Seismological Bulletin at Regional Scale, Seismological Research Letters vol. 77, number 4 July/August 2006

Conferences

Fallou L.; Petersen L.; Bossu R.; Roussel F.: Efficiently allocating safety tips after an earthquake – lessons learned from the smartphone application LastQuake, 2019 Iscram
Dupont A., Steed R., Bossu R.: Determination of the earthquake epicenter from the Geographic Profiling of the digital footprints left by eyewitnesses, 2018, 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission
Bossu, R.; Steed, R.; Mazet-Roux, G.; Etivant, C. & Roussel, F.: The EMSC tools used to detect and diagnose the impact of global earthquakes from direct and indirect eyewitnesses Contributions, 2015 Iscram
Bossu, R.; Gilles, S. & Roussel, F.: Flashsourcing or Real-Time Mapping of Earthquake Effects from Instantaneous Analysis of the EMSC Website Traffic, 2010 AGU Fall Meeting
Bossu, R.; Gilles, S.; Mazet-Roux, G.; Kamb, L. & Frobert, L.: Citizen Seismology, 2010 EGU General Assembly
Bossu R., Baki J., Aupetit M., Marin S. & Gilles M.: Automatic Felt Maps: How to Rapidly Know When and Where an Earthquake has been Felt?, 2006 AGU Fall Meeting

Press release

Digital Element. A Seismic Shift in Earthquake Detection: Tracking Early Impact Through the Internet. Reuters, 6/04/2009 Description of the EMSC/Digital Element partnership for the detection of the IP location of EMSC web users.

Other

Fallou, L. et Bossu, R. (2019), Taking into account the cultural context to improve scientific communication – Lessons learned from earthquakes in Mayotte, EGU Seismology Blog.
Bossu, R. et al. (2019), How to improve rapid public earthquake information? Listen to eyewitnesses!, EGU Seismology Blog.
Bossu, R.; Steed, R.; Mazet-Roux, G.; Roussel, F.; Etivant, C.; Frobert, L. & Godey, S.D Amico, S., ed., (2015),Earthquakes and their impact on society, Springer, chapter The key role of eyewitnesses in rapid impact assessment of global earthquakes, pp. 601--618.
Riviera earthquake 'is a warning to France' Interview of Remy Bossu, General Secretary, EMSC, 08/04/2014
Internet, réseaux sociaux, un outil efficace dans la gestion de crises Les Echos, 31/01/2014
Séismes en Bretagne : les réseaux sociaux tremblent aussi. Futura Sciences, 12/12/2013. The use of internet quake detection by the EMSC and the dissemination through social networks.
Rémy BOSSU, "Vers une sismologie citoyenne ?", Face au risque, Novembre 2013, http://www.citizenseismology.eu/index-fr.html#materials (english version of this article: "Toward citizen seismology")
Bossu, R.; Gilles, S.; Mazet-Roux, G. & Roussel, F.Miller, D. M. & Rivera, J., ed., (2011), Comparative Emergency Management: Examining Global and Regional Responses to Disasters, Auerbach/Taylor and Francis Publishers, chapter Citizen Seismology or How to Involve the Public in Earthquake Response, pp. 237--259.
Bossu, R.; Mazet-Roux, G.; Douet, V.; Rives, S.; Marin, S. & Aupetit, M. (2008), Internet Users as Seismic Sensors for Improved Earthquake Response, Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 89.
Giardini, Domenico & Eck, Torild & Bossu, Rémy & Wiemer, Stefan. (2008). Networking Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Seismology in Europe. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 89. 10.1029/2008EO240003.
Rémy Bossu in Face aux crises, courage, changeons ! FNEP 2012

Online video

Les Séismes, April 2014, Interview of Rémy Bossu, General Secretary of the EMSC, France 2.
Earthquakes in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, November 2013, Resulting from a collaboration between the EMSC, The Secretary of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction of the UN and the Foundation MAIF, a poster targets school students and the general public of the all Euro-Med region.
Rémy BOSSU. Communiquer sur l'Aléa Sismique dans les Régions à Sismicité Modérée. 5es Rencontres Géographes et Assureurs face aux risques naturels, 07/04/2011
Rémy BOSSU. Description of the EMSC/CSEM activities. A video shot for the Grand Palais exhibition on the «Ville Européenne des Sciences» in november 2008.

Awards

The EMSC received a national award in 2007: the Iris Rouge prize (Information sur les Risques majeurs, Education et Sensibilisation / Information on major hazards, Education and Awareness, awarded by the IDEAL network and the French Ministry of Sustainable Development).

Project Reports

Earthquake Qualitative Impact Assessment: Improvements and New Performance Evaluation, SERA JRA6
Earthquake Qualitative Impact Assessment: Improvements and New Performance Evaluation, SERA JRA6
Webservices developped during EPOS:
Specifications of the EMSC testimony’sService,
Specifications of EMSC event ID service,
Functional specifications for SRCMOD service,
Specifications of EMSC moment tensor services: Interactive access and EPOS Thematic Core Service