New Zealand/Quake 2010

New Zealand Earthquake - Situation Reports and Assessment

--Deborahshaddon 17:40, 3 September 2010 (UTC) On September 3rd, 2010, a 7.2 Earthquake was reported in Christ Church, NZ...

USGS PAGER Report

NZ GeoNet Felt It Map (Crowdsourced)

NZ Civil Defence Status #ChristchurchQuake

--Deborahshaddon 10:50, 4 September 2010 (UTC) ASSESSMENT: Significant damage, but NO DEATHS REPORTED: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/03/new.zealand.quake/index.html. Also some good images: http://www.crashbang.co.nz/quake040910/index.html

CrisisCommons Crisis community-call-to-action Case-study

We are observing this event to capture the lessons learned of community call to action to help best establish a 'best practices playbook' for steps we take, assessments we do, etc.:

• Jeanie created this to capture phases/steps: http://piratepad.net/TVJLXUdEar

Resources and Activities

Initial Monitoring to establish hashtag convention

1. Initial Recommendation (Andy Carvin): #eqnz and #nzquake - (--Deborahshaddon 17:51, 3 September 2010 (UTC))
2. Observed: NZ Civil Defense using #ChristchurchQuake NZ Civil Defence Status RSS 63.245.220.224 01:35, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
3. Observed: TBD

Resource (help) and News Feed collections

CrisisWiki: http://crisiswiki.org/2010_Christchurch_NZ_Earthquake

Initial Gathering - News and Information Sources

Some vetting was happening here: http://piratepad.net/DB2jyR5eXe

Initial Guidelines/Recommendations on data to collect (posted from gg)?:

• Who are NZ's biggest twitter stars (those who have the most followers, presence) Nat Torkington (@gnat).
  • Aggregator TrendsMap http://trendsmap.com/local/nz/christchurch
  • Local Search http://twitter.com/#search?q=near%3Achristchurch%20within%3A50mi
  • Twitter Find People New Zealand Christchurch
  • Influential/Followers on WeFollow (no tweets 6 hr after) http://wefollow.com/twitter/newzealand
    • John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand (unverified) @johnkeypm
    • New Zealand Tourism @PureNewZealand
    • Simon Young, Director of sy social media consultancy, Aukland @audaciousgloop
    • @NZAfro
    • @mqtodd
• Emergency management agencies twitter feeds?
  • NZ Civil Defence
    • @NZCivilDefence
    • NZ Civil Defence Status RSS Feed
    • NZ Civil Defense using tag #ChristchurchQuake
• Perhaps that is a task for the news gatherers. *
• Also find the twitpics/flickr?
  • Flickr Christchurch Recent
  • TwitPic #nzquake OR #eqnz Recent
• BTW - like the lean towards authoritative sources...
• Broadcast and New Media Wikipedia Google News
  • RadioNZ Live Feed
  • NZ Hearald @nzhearald http://twitter.com/nzherald
  • TVNZ
    • TVNZ Canterbury quake: As it happened (timeline)
  • Cantenbury Television (CTV) No updates on website next day
  • Voxy (Blogs, New Zealand Press Association)
    • Social Media and the 2010 Earthquake