Path and site effects deduced from merged transfrontier internet macroseismic data of two recent <i>M</i>4 earthquakes in northwest Europe using a grid cell approach

Van Noten, Koen; Lecocq, Thomas; Sira, Christophe; Hinzen, Klaus-G.; Camelbeeck, Thierry

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-453-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-453-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-453-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

Research article

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07 Apr 2017

Research article |

| 07 Apr 2017

Path and site effects deduced from merged transfrontier internet macroseismic data of two recent M4 earthquakes in northwest Europe using a grid cell approach

Koen Van Noten, Thomas Lecocq, Christophe Sira, Klaus-G. Hinzen, and Thierry Camelbeeck

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Rémy Bossu, 12 Jan 2017
- AC1: 'Final Response letter to Bossu's review', Koen Van Noten, 11 Feb 2017
RC2: 'comments', Valerio de Rubeis, 12 Jan 2017
- AC2: 'Final Response letter to De Rubeis' review', Koen Van Noten, 11 Feb 2017
RC3: 'Path and site effects deduced from transfrontier internet macroseismic data of two recent M4 earthquakes in NW Europe', Anonymous Referee #3, 13 Jan 2017
- AC3: 'Final Response letter to R#3's review', Koen Van Noten, 11 Feb 2017

Short summary

Every person is a seismometer. By using people’s reports submitted online to European seismological agencies, we made new grid cell shaking intensity maps of the 2011 Goch (DE) and 2015 Ramsgate (UK) M₄ earthquakes. Both events were widely felt in NW Europe and had non-concentric shaking intensity patterns which are strongly linked to the bedrock depth in the felt area. Storing intensity data in grid cells is a promising tool for seismological agencies to share intensity data anonymously.