Earthquake Spotting Comes to Twitter, Courtesy of USGS

San Andreas fault fans , there ’s a new TED in town . The United States Geological Survey has developed the Twitter Earthquake Detection project , in an attempt to amend its handling of those natural disasters when they hit across the U.S.

The USGSted undertaking relies firstly on an app programming port that collate twitch with seism - related keywords . You know , like quake , quake , tremor , theearthmoveddarling , that sorting of stuff . The USGS then gathers datum from the quake , like order of magnitude , positioning , depth below the airfoil and bit of tweets received .

While the Twitter Earthquake Detection labor may not give the USGS any serious info on shudder , here it ’s all about the qualitative . The reaction and memory of someone catch in an earthquake can end up being just as useful to scientist as bare cold , hard science . [ USGSted on TwitterViaecopolitology ]

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