%0 Journal Article %T On the use of the Internet to collect earthquake information %A R¨¦my Bossu %A Paul S. Earle %J Annals of Geophysics %D 2011 %I Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) %R 10.4401/ag-5549 %X As geophysicists, we find it difficult to imagine our daily professional and personal lives without the Internet. Emails have been the mainstay of scientific communication since the 1980¡¯s and websites, since their inception in the 1990¡¯s, have grown to represent the heart of public information dissemination. Now, scientific data flow in real-time around the world through custom protocols, portals, and web services, and the advent of social media services such as Facebook and Twitter offer both a new mechanism to communicate ideas and a potential resource for collecting data. [...] %U http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/5549