Why we Twitter

Posted by Georgia on February 13, 2008 at 4:56 pm.

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The first thing I thought to do as I felt my desk and chair start shaking, albeit gently, about 40 minutes ago, was to post to Twitter: “Earthquake here in Trinidad!” Within two minutes I had a response from the intrepid iange, asking: “what’s the value of the quake, don’t see any seismic senors which have picked on it yet.”

I told iange I’d check the UWI Seimsic Research Centre’s web site but then got sidetracked by e-mail. Within another few minutes, however, iange was back with the info: “appears to be a quake measuring 5.4 Magnitude according to GEOFON’s sensors” and “GEOFON has revised reading to 5.2 Magnitude , off the coast of Venezuela“, plus links to the sites shown in the images above and below.

This is one of the many reasons we use Twitter.

Update (6:07 PM): The UWI Seismic Research Centre has posted a report.

Magnitude 5.2 - GULF OF PARIA, VENEZUELA

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