{"id":4869,"date":"2012-06-20T07:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2012-06-20T07:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:11:33","slug":"did-you-see-a-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/06\/20\/did-you-see-a-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you see a landslide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few years seismologists have had considerable success in getting spatial information about earthquakes through web-based initiatives in which users can indicate the magnitude of shaking that they experienced during an event.\u00a0 The two best known examples are the USGS <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/dyfi\/\">Did you Feel It?<\/a> and the Geonet (New Zealand) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geonet.org.nz\/earthquake\/\">Report an Earthquake<\/a> initiatives.\u00a0 In landslides there has been some discussion about whether this model could be replicated to start to collect much better information about the spatial distribution of events.\u00a0 It is good to see that the USGS, so often the pioneer in such work, has taken the plunge with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/blogs\/features\/usgs_top_story\/did-you-see-a-landslide\/?from=title\">Did You See It?<\/a> site, in which users can fill in a <a href=\"http:\/\/landslides.usgs.gov\/dysi\/form.php\">short form<\/a> to report a landslide event:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/06\/20\/did-you-see-a-landslide\/12_06-dysi-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4870\" title=\"12_06 DYSI 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/06\/12_06-DYSI-1-e1340176107826.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" \/><\/a>Inevitably this will take some time to gain momentum, but it is a really great initiative that we should all support if possible.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USGS have created a new web based tool to allow users to help to generate a database of landslides<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,3],"tags":[45,469,70],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-database-2","category-landslide-report","tag-database","tag-featured","tag-usgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}