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There is a belief and hope that earthquakes can be predicted: by seismologists, by studying animals’ behaviors or the moon cycle for eg.

This beliefs is enhanced by predictions from self-announced experts and misunderstanding of what seismology can and cannot do (EEW, OEF, RIA,...)

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There is common misunderstanding that the magnitude, intensity and the potential impacts can be predicted.

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In My experience people tend to confuse magnitude and intensity

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Please add a comment with a myth-information we have not listed but you would like us to have a look at.

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Please add a comment with a myth-information we have not listed but you would like us to have a look at.

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Local or foreign governments as well as industries are often suspected of creating earthquakes.

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During long-lasting earthquake sequences, people demand clear and certain statements, not uncertain probabilities of aftershocks. Hence, they tend to believe in any kind of misinformation.

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Experiencing ‘more’ earthquakes during the night is a matter of circumstances.

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Due to sea level rise, ice cap melting, pressure changes in the atmosphere caused by climate change, more earthquake have to be expected in the future.

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Please list your expectations or preferences for a format of the output.

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You have different options to give feedback:

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You have different options to give feedback:

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1. You can give a thumb up or down for each myths-information you would like us to focus on (below the picture).

2. You can add a comment below the myths-information descriptions .

3. You can also give a thumb up  for the comments of the others if you think the same.

4. You can use the eighth column to add further myths-information you would like us to focus on.

5. In the ninth column, you can comment what format of the final output you prefer.

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Minor earthquakes do relieve pressure from tectonic plates, BUT this effect is not enough to prevent a larger magnitude earthquake to happen.

Whether large earthquakes occur along ‘seismic gaps’ or not, is currently under debate.

From a hazard perspective, a region does not become safer after a large earthquake.

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The seismicity rate is increasing/there are more earthquakes than there used to be.

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The seismicity rate is increasing/there are more earthquakes than there used to be.

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(LW)

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Good visualizations accompanied by text explanations.

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Good visualizations accompanied by text explanations.

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(LW)

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A discussed with a person who spent 1 hour to convince ,e that Tohuku event was triggered by nuclear essays

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I recommend finding an  experienced graphic designer who can make the best images using best practices.

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I recommend finding an  experienced graphic designer who can make the best images using best practices.

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(LW)

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Earthquakes in different parts of the world are connected in some way... (AS)

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Earthquakes in different parts of the world are connected in some way... (AS)

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L'Aquila 2009 event is the exemple of this myth

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Seismic Instruments can attract earthquakes (AS)

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Seismic Instruments can attract earthquakes (AS)

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We should take care not to fall into information deficit approach 

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We should take care not to fall into information deficit approach 

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We posit that these outputs would facilitate (risk) communication. In so doing, we I think have to be careful not to recast the “knowledge deficit” model. I think these need to be a suite of approaches.
(JJR)

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If we use a visualization, there are research-based best practices from the vis literature, for example on choosing colors, scales & scale breaks, designing legends, etc.

Some of these are task- and audience-agnostic. But many depend on or interact crucially with the target audience and what tasks they use the visualization for. I would be happy to discuss more.

-Max Schneider (maxs@gfz-potsdam.de)

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Short video tutorials for each that we can all link from the pages where we provide earthquake information and products (AS)

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Short video tutorials for each that we can all link from the pages where we provide earthquake information and products (AS)

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I think images, visuals, possibly story telling approaches would be useful partner to outputs. The outputs 'story' could be designed to aim to avoid the direct and indirect impacts of information, rather than the technical minutae. This coming from the learning that quality information together with storytelling can be more effective for communicating than technological or scientific messaging alone (JJR)

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The government is not telling us everything they know. They're hiding information about earthquakes.

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The government is not telling us everything they know. They're hiding information about earthquakes.

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(LW)

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Where possible, it could aid communication if we can indicate possible source and propagation pathways of such myths. This could be laid out clearly in the output translation, to prompt those engaging to consider and critique 'where did my assumption come from?' , and a bit of deliberation? Because as you say misinformation spread can be unintentional. I am not suggesting to be expansive here, but simply a section of the output might include "where might this misunderstanding source from?"  followed by prompts such as, for myth #2, suggestions such as '(a) how  EQ are described and reported by non-specialists use language such as 'predict', and so it is easy to get this impression. (b) there are influential individuals who make claims about earthquake prediction, these claims seem scientifically based, however this is misleading"

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focus on myths that are most common and most damaging

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focus on myths that are most common and most damaging

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If you have any indication of which myths tend to be most common held or which lead to direct and indirect problems, i'd present them in that order in the publication (JJR)

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Sometimes misinformation is spread by ourselves. I've heard someone use language to a room full of MSc students that suggest EQ are predictable. It didn't really affect the content of the lecture etc and they were not seismology students (environmental engineering) and so may not think about it again, but simply take the message away from that one little planted seed. So, resourcing our community to consider what language to swap out and what to swap in, could be v helpful. I'm aware of similar efforts to move away from old/outdated language around international development. JJR

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(Fabrice had invited me to the meeting but I could not attend, so apologies if this was discussed and dismissed - Frederik Tilmann - FT)
The worst thing that can happen to a myth-debunking portal is to make technical mistakes or to be dogmatic in the face of an ambiguous reality.
As with many myths, there is often a grain of truth in them, or the myth is literally true, but its implications are completely misunderstood.I would say that's true for most of the '7 earthquake myths', as already mentioned by several commentators (I will add some more specific points to the left). So I think a myth-information should not declare a bold "FALSE" but if honest must be say "Partially true, but.. " or "Mostly false. (but note that ..)" and then explain the misunderstandings. This might sound a bit too much grey but cleverly done this can end up being more engaging and still give the message.

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Earthquakes happen only on plate boundaries

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Earthquakes happen only on plate boundaries