HOW VOLCANO ALERT BOT WORKS
@volcano_alert_bot is a bot created for TELEGRAM (messaging and chat app) by Mr. Giovanni Borgia (founder and admin of the aforementioned website) which allows users to send messages whenever a seismic event occurs near any active volcano on the planet present in the Mapsism database.
To receive notifications, it is necessary to select the volcanoes that you intend to monitor and set a range between 10, 20, 50 and 100 km.
Therefore if you select the "Vesuvius" volcano by setting a range of 10 km, the user will receive a message in the Telegram app if a seismic event (with a magnitude greater than 1.9) should occur within 10 kilometers of Vesuvius.
Volcanic eruptions are very often anticipated by seismic swarms of varying intensity and duration.
So through the bot "Volcano Alert" the user can easily monitor any volcano (without any limit), take into account the quantity and extent of seismic events that occurred at different distances from the volcano, thus drawing conclusions of a purely subjective nature and for the which Mr. Borgia cannot have any responsibility.
Each message received by the bot contains the following information:
- Distance in kilometers between the earthquake epicenter and the monitored volcano
- Magnitude of the seismic event
- Zone of the epicenter according to the division into seismic zones " Flinn – Engdahl "
- Date and time of the event expressed in UTC format (yyyy-mm-dd hh: min: ss UTC)
- Link that refers to the page on the site www.mapsism.com which contains more details regarding the earthquake in question
- Link that refers to a description page of the volcano always present on the aforementioned website.
Seismic event data are provided by EMSC , USGS and INGV (read more) and for this reason the owner of the website www.mapsism.com and creator of the bot @volcano_alert_bot cannot guarantee the completeness and exhaustiveness of the data itself.
Although very rarely the bodies and institutions from which the Mapsism algorithms extrapolate the information of the seismic events can suffer interruptions in the supply of data or publish incorrect information (such as incorrect locations and non-definitive magnitude).
For this reason, Mr. Borgia cannot be held responsible for damages and conclusions of others deriving from the use of @volcano_alert_bot and the contents of the aforementioned website (www.mapsism.com).
The priority and the purpose of the bot is to warn the user of new seismic events, which occurred near the selected volcanoes, as soon as possible so that it can draw its own conclusions whether or not it is convinced of the existence of the risk of an impending or future volcanic eruption.
To this end @volcano_alert_bot could therefore send seismic data (from third parties) which cannot be considered definitive as they are, most of the time, subject to numerous revisions (especially for the data concerning the magnitude).
By subscribing to the subscription, the user is aware that the services provided by @volcano_alert_bot and therefore provided by www.mapsism.com could be interrupted and / or suspended at any time caused by problems that the team that manages Mapsism will undertake to resolve as soon as possible.
In the event of interruptions and suspensions of the service provided by @volcano_alert_bot, if the pages of www.mapsism.com are unreachable, no compensation or refund will be provided.
However, Mapsism will endeavor to limit any kind of problem by trying to prevent such scenarios from ever materializing.
Every day users will receive, in addition to the classic messages in case of seismic events near the monitored volcanoes, a curiosity regarding any active volcano on the planet.
Every Monday at 17.00 UTC all users will also receive a message from @volcano_alert_bot which will report the volcanoes where (within 100 km) more seismic events were recorded in the previous week (from 00.00 UTC on Sunday until 23.59 UTC Saturday).
Users who purchased a " SPECIAL " subscription will receive a message from @volcano_alert_bot every week (typically Thursdays at 18.00 UTC) with a message containing:
- Volcanoes that have shown signs of activity in the past 7 days
- Volcanic activity trend compared to last week (Example: "increased by 50%")
The data provided are extrapolated from the weekly volcanic bulletin published by " Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) ".
For this reason, if the " Global Volcanism Program " decides not to update the report or to publish reports that cannot be read by the Mapsism algorithms (for example through the publication of reports that are not compliant with the XML programming language), the Mr. Borgia cannot be held responsible in any way.
However, Mapsism will endeavor to limit any kind of problem by trying to prevent such scenarios from ever occurring.
Users with a "SPECIAL" subscription will receive a message every day at 10.00 UTC stating the volcanoes that have been affected by multiple seismic events (which occurred within 100 km) the previous day.
Any user is free to sign up for a subscription (without any automatic renewal) for a duration of 1 MONTH (i.e. 30 days) or a 1 YEAR (i.e. 365 days).
Three days before the deadline, the user will receive a message with which @volcano_alert_bot will invite you to renew your subscription.
At any time the user can:
- remove the monitored volcanoes, select new volcanoes and set different radii of action without any limit
- may permanently terminate the subscription and therefore the services provided by @volcano_alert_bot
- Renew and / or change the type of subscription
- Change the language in which to receive messages from @volcano_alert_bot
To do this, just write in the private chat (between user and @volcano_alert_bot) /start
Each user can create a subscription with which to receive PRIVATELY messages from @volcano_alert_bot and simultaneously start a subscription that will concern groups or channels Telegram in which the user is an administrator.
In this case, the price of the subscription and renewals varies according to the number of members in the group, supergroup or channel for which you intend to use the services provided by @volcano_alert_bot
Only administrators will be able to change their season tickets and the choice of monitored volcanoes.
If you remove @volcano_alert_bot as an administrator it will be impossible to receive messages from the bot itself.
@volcano_alert_bot sends messages thanks to a unique and identifying code created by Telegram for each user registered in the app and connected to his own telephone number (known only by Telegram and to whom no one can have access ).
If you change your telephone number @volcano_alert_bot will therefore continue to send messages to the address with which the user started the subscription.
If you " stop and block " the bot the user will no longer receive any messages from @volcano_alert_bot (but the subscription will not be deleted).
If this happens to receive the messages again, just search, within the Telegram app, @volcano_alert_bot and start the bot (writing / start ).
The payment of the subscription takes place in complete safety without Mr. Borgia and the www.mapsism.com website being able to save the user's sensitive data entered in the payment procedure in any way.
The sharing of messages received from @volcano_alert_bot within other TELEGRAM chats (private or public) for which there is no type of subscription with @volcano_alert_bot is forbidden
The user agrees to indemnify Mr. Borgia Giovanni, as the founder of the website and creator of @volcano_alert_bot (for the Telegram app), of all losses, damages, costs, charges and expenses, including without limitation, the legal and accounting costs deriving from any violation of these " Terms and Conditions ".