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Earthquake Twitter

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Twitter messages offer first-hand accounts of earthquakes within minutes. Analyses of their content and geographic distribution can be a useful supplement to instrument-based estimates of quake location and magnitude.

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Figure 1: Location of tweets posted in the first 120 seconds after the 30 March 2009 magnitude 4.3 earthquake at Morgan Hill, California.

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  1. Paul Earle is at the US Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center, MS 966, Box 25046, DFC, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA. pearle@usgs.gov,

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Earle, P. Earthquake Twitter. Nature Geosci 3, 221–222 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo832

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