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Feb
21

Is That an Earthquake or Just Your Phone Vibrating?

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At the #SocialGov Summit for Social Media Week DC, U.S. Geological Survey’s Scott Horvath discussed crowdsourcing earthquake data from Twitter. USGS has discovered data from social media is an effective way to quickly gather information about active, or potential, earthquakes.

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  1. sarah says:

    February 26, 2013 at 5:44 pm (UTC -5 )

    Reporting of earthquakes needs to be improved, only time will tell.

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