Abstract

Public Participation (in earthquake monitoring and forecast) and Public Preparedness (for seismic disaster risk reduction), or P⁴, is one of the interesting, and often underestimated approach to earthquake forecast. In the era of big data, this community/public approach faces new challenges and new opportunities and may contribute to earthquake science. Taking China as an example, and focusing on earthquake forecasts. This article reviews some of the key issues currently under discussion. It seems that new developments make it possible to foster a ‘version 2.0’ of P⁴, empowered by information technology.

Article Highlight

• How the traditional mobilization and organization of the public to cooperate on earthquake forecast change in the time of big data, with technical background updated completely compared to the last century, reviews some on-going works in China and discusses them.