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Twitter Earthquake Detector

Dec 23

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12/23/2010 1:52 PM  RssIcon

Sample map output from the Twitter Earthquake Detector prototype project.

U.S. Geological Survey: Twitter Earthquake Detector (TED) reports that “the USGS is developing a system that gathers real-time, earthquake-related messages from the social networking site Twitter and applies place, time, and key word filtering to gather geo-located accounts of shaking. This approach provides rapid first-impression narratives and, potentially, photos from people at the hazard’s location.”

http://fcw.com/articles/2010/07/19/web-app-usgs-twitter.aspx indicates that the USGS will supplement their official data with photographs and tweeted reports containing words such as earthquake.

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