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I live on a 11th floor apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil (near Av. Paulista), and I felt this quake very slightly! It was very subtle and I thought first that I wa
by henpa 11y ago
I live on a 11th floor apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil (near Av. Paulista), and I felt this quake very slightly! It was very subtle and I thought first that I was just feeling dizzy or something. Then I searched for "terremoto" (earthquake in spanish) on Twitter and then I found a bunch of posts. Isn't it crazy that I could feel this from over here?
- henpa 11y agoAccording to Google Maps, I'm approx 2500 kilometers (1600 miles) from the epicenter.
- pmtarantino 11y agoBuenos Aires here, 5th floor. Also felt dizzy for a few minutes.
- sobinator 11y agoEarthquakes, and the twitter responses to them, have been the focus of some pretty interesting academic studies that I've read (2011 Christchurch, NZ was what I studied). If I still had access to the academic journals, I'd pull up some articles. They present fantastic case studies of how using twitter user lat/longs, time logs, and nlp can be very useful.
- ngoldbaum 11y agoWhen I lived in California I would often do a twitter search after feeling a small earthquake. If there weren't any results, I would usually assume it was a truck passing by or something like that. Very often there would be tweets about the earthquake several minutes before the official USGS page for the earthquake was created.