Publications

Chandrakumar, C., Tan, M.L., Holden, C., Stephens, MT., & Prasanna, R. (2025) Performance Evaluation of a Community‐Engaged Low‐Cost Earthquake Early Warning System for Aotearoa New Zealand. Seismological Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240364 

Chandrakumar, C., Tan, M.L., Holden, C., Stephens, MT., & Prasanna, R. (2025). Evaluating P-Wave detection algorithms for earthquake early warning: insights from GeoNet data in Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. Earth Science Informatics. 18(1).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-024-01519-9 

Power, W.L., Flores Henriquez, C., Lukovic, B., Nilsson, D., Tan, M.L., Kuligowski, E., Hudson-Doyle, E.E., Boersen, K., Leonard, G.S., Thomas, K-L., Wilson, T.M., Khan, H. (2025). Tsunami Evacuation Modelling for Napier, Gisborne, and South New Brighton and Southshore. Lower Hutt (NZ): GNS Science. 75 p. (GNS Science Report 2025/20). https://doi.org/10.21420/YSA2-8731 

Stoetzer, O., Tan, M.L., Power, W.L., Hudson-Doyle, E.E., McCombe, G., & Johnston, D.M. (2024) Tsunami evacuation modelling: Expert Elicitation Workshops report. Lower Hutt, N.Z.: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2024/33. https://doi.org/10.21420/GZMM-J986 

Chandrakumar, C., Tan, M.L, Holden, C., Stephens, M., Punchihewa, A., & Prasanna, R. (2024). Estimating S-wave amplitude for earthquake early warning in New Zealand: Leveraging the first 3 seconds of P-Wave. Earth Science Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-024-01403-6 

Johnston, D.M., Tan, M. L., Tapuke, K., Toma, C., Stephens, M., Wotherspoon, L., Leonard, G., Power, W., Adikari, K. (2024). Tsunami resilience: Aotearoa New Zealand’s path to integrated risk management and engineering design. 2024 Annual Technical Conference for the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 108. https://repo.nzsee.org.nz/handle/nzsee/2758 

Kroher, L., Tan, M. L., & Prasanna, R. (2024). Exploring the roles and challenges of disruptive technologies for emergency management in Aotearoa New Zealand. ISCRAM Proceedings, 21. https://ojs.iscram.org/index.php/Proceedings/article/view/94

Chandrakumar, C., Tan, M. L., Holden, C., Stephens, M. T. ., & Prasanna, R. (2024). Adapting PLUM: Earthquake Early Warning with Node-Level Processing in New Zealand. ISCRAM Proceedings, 21. https://ojs.iscram.org/index.php/Proceedings/article/view/53

Harrison, S.E., Tan, M.L., Prasanna, R., Doyle, E.E.H., (2024). Social media use by multiple stakeholders and rightsholders during the Fort McMurray wildfires. In S. Feldmann-Jensen, S.J. Jensen, J. Slick (Eds.), Case Studies in Disaster Response, Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809526-3.00015-4

Chandrakumar, C., Tan, M. L., Holden, C., Stephens, M. T., & Prasanna, R. (2023). Performance analysis of P-wave detection algorithms for a community-engaged earthquake early warning system – a case study of the 2022 M5.8 Cook Strait earthquake. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2023.2284276 

Tan, M. L., Brown, A., Stock, K., Becker, J. S., Kenney, C., Lambie, E., Cui, A., Prasanna, R. (2023). “Balancing human needs with technology” – a design-led approach for exploring an earthquake early warning system in Aotearoa New Zealand. In S. M. van Manen, K. Kremer, T. S. Lin, & R. Ramírez (Eds.), Design for Emergency Management. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003306771-9 

Tan, M.L., Vinnell, L.J., Valentin, A.P.M., Prasanna, R., Becker, J.S. (2023). The public's perception of an earthquake early warning system: A study on factors influencing continuance intention. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104032

Vinnell, L.J., Tan, M.L., Prasanna, R., Becker, J.S. (2023). Knowledge, perceptions, and behavioral responses to earthquake early warning in Aotearoa New Zealand. Frontiers in Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1229247

Gober, M., Christel, I., Hoffman, D., Mooney, C.J., Rodriquez, L., Becker, N., Ebert, E.E., Fearnley, C., Fundel, V.J., Grieger, T., Golding, B., Jeurig, J., Kelman, I., Kox, T., Magro, F-A., Perrels, A., Postigo, J.C., Potter, S.H., Robbins, J., Rust, H., Schoster, D., Tan, M.L., Taylor, A., William, H. (2023). Enhancing the value of weather and climate services in society - identified gaps and needs as outcomes of the 1st WMO WWRP/SERA “Weather and Society” Conference. Bulletin of American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0199.1

Huggins, T.J., Tan, M. L., Kuo, Y., Prasanna, R., Rea, D.D. (2022). Online learning adoption by Chinese university students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 26(2), 147–157. [PDF]

Tan, M.L.,  Senaweera, O., Gunawardana, A., Rasith, M., Suaib, M., Shanthakumar, T., Hisham, M., (2022). New Zealand COVID Tracer App: understanding usage and user sentiments. Proceedings of the ISCRAM Asia Pacific Conference 2022, 1–14. [PDF]

Chandrakumar, C., Prasanna, R., Stephens, M., Tan, M.L., Holden, C., Punchihewa, A., Becker, J.S., Jeong, S., Ravishan, D., (2022). Algorithms for detecting P-waves and earthquake magnitude estimation: Initial literature review findings. Proceedings of the ISCRAM Asia Pacific Conference 2022, 1–14. [PDF]

Chandrakumar, C., Prasanna, R., Stephens, M., Tan, M.L., (2022). Earthquake early warning systems based on low-cost ground motion sensors: A systematic literature review. Frontiers in Sensors, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsens.2022.1020202 

Tan, M.L., Hoffmann, D, Ebert, E., Cui, A., Johnston, D., (2022). Exploring the potential role of citizen science in the warning value chain for high impact weather. Frontiers in Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.949949 

Tan, M.L., Becker, J.S., Stock, K., Prasanna, R., Brown, A., Kenney, C., Cui, A., Lambie, E., (2022). Understanding the social aspects of earthquake early warning: A literature review. Frontiers in Communication, 7, 1–17.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.939242 

Prasanna, R., Chandrakumar, C., Nandana R., Holden, C., Punchihewa, A., Becker, J.S., Jeong, S., Liyanage, N., Ravishan, D., Sampath, R., Tan, M.L., (2022). “Saving Precious Seconds”—A Novel Approach to Implementing a Low-Cost Earthquake Early Warning System with Node-Level Detection and Alert Generation. Informatics, 9(25). https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics9010025

Vinnell, L.J., Doyle, E.E.H., Inch, P., Tan, M.L., Becker, J.S., Johnston, D.J., (2022). Evacuation Behavior and Information Needs of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand Residents Following the 5 March 2021 Mw 7.3 East Cape Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210286 

Tan, M.L., Leonard, G.L., Johnston, D.M. (2021), Hawke's Bay Regional Alerting Systems Review. Joint Centre for Disaster Research – Massey University. 1-50p. (Disaster Research Science Report 2021:4). [PDF] 

Goded, T., Tan, M. L., Becker, J. S., Horspool, N., Canessa, S., Huso, R., Johnston, D. M. (2021). Using citizen data to understand earthquake impacts: Aotearoa New Zealand's earthquake Felt Reports. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies., 25(3), 61–78. [PDF] 

Vinnell, L. J., Becker, J. S., Scolobig, A., Johnston, D. M., Tan, M. L., McLaren, L. (2021). Citizen science initiatives in high-impact weather and disaster risk reduction. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 25(3), 55–60. [PDF]

Huggins, T. J., Yang, L., Zhang, J., Tan, M. L., & Prasanna, R. (2021). Psychological Effects of Dominant Responses to Early Warning Alerts. International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), 12(3), 1–15. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJACI.2021070101 [PDF]

Tan, M. L., Prasanna, R., Becker, J. S., Brown, A., Kenney, C., Lambie, E., Johnston, D. M., Stock, K., & Alwis, D. De. (2021). Outlook for earthquake early warning for Aotearoa New Zealand : Insights from initiating a community-of-practice. 2021 Annual Technical Conference for the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 55–63 [PDF}.

Tan, M.L., Prasanna, R., Stock, K., Doyle, E.E.H., Leonard, G., & Johnston, D. (2020). Usability factors influencing the continuance intention of disaster apps: A mixed-methods study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101874 

Tan, M.L., Prasanna, R., Stock, K., Doyle, E.E.H., Leonard, G., & Johnston, D. (2020). Understanding end-users' perspectives: Towards developing usability guidelines for disaster apps. Progress in Disaster Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2020.100118 

Becker, J.S., Potter, S.H., Prasanna, R., Tan, M.L., Payne, B.A., Holden, C., Horspool, N., Smith, R., Johnston, D.M., (2020). Scoping the potential for earthquake early warning in Aotearoa New Zealand: A sectoral analysis of perceived benefits and challenges. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101765 

Tan, M. L., Prasanna, R., Stock, K., Doyle, E.E.H., Leonard, G., & Johnston, D. (2020). Modified usability framework for disaster Apps: A qualitative thematic analysis of user reviews. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-020-00282-x

Tan, M. L., Harrison, S., Becker, J. S., Doyle, E. E. H., Prasanna, R. (2020) Research themes on warnings in information systems crisis management literature. In Hughes, A. L., McNeill, F., Zobel, C. (Eds.), 17th ISCRAM Conference (pp. 1085-1099). Blacksburg, VA [PDF]

Tan, M. L., Prasanna, R., Stock, K., Hudson-Doyle, E., Leonard, G., & Johnston, D. (2019). Enhancing the usability of a disaster app: exploring the perspectives of the public as users. In Z. Franco, J. J. Gonzalez, & J. H. Canos (Eds.), 16th ISCRAM Conference (pp. 876–886). Valencia. [PDF]

Santiago, J. S. S., Manuela, W. S., Tan, M. L. L., Sañez, S. K., & Tong, A. Z. U. (2018). Agency-driven post-disaster recovery: A comparative study of three Typhoon Washi resettlement communities in the Philippines. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 27 (2018), 480-489  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.11.012 

Gotangco, K., Favis, A., Guzman, M. A., Tan, M. L., Quintana, C., & Josol, J. C. (2017). A supply chain framework for characterizing indirect vulnerability. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 9(2), 184–206. http://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-04-2015-0046

Santiago, J. S. S., Manuela, W. S., Tan, M. L. L., Sañez, S. K., & Tong, A. Z. U. (2016). Of timelines and timeliness: Lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response. Disasters, 40(4), 644–667. http://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12178