Funded under the GCRF Building Resilience Scheme by NERC, ESRC, AHRC Michael Rovatsos, Malcolm Atkinson and Rosa Filgueira attended the REAR Kick-Off meeting in Edinburgh 19-20 January 2017 meeting with the project leaders from Geosceinces, colleagues from EPCC and partners from Ireland, a total of 21 people, met to plan the work, which has two main goals: using the higher rates of seismic activity after an earthquake to obtain observations that will improve advice to responders and influence build-back better, and to develop socio-technical models, methods and technology for collecting and applying this information. That should lead to follow on proposals. This article was published on 2024-11-22