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Patrick McKenzie tweet https://twitter.com/#!/patio11/status/46086466836762624 https://twitter.com/#!/patio11/status/46086466836762624

patio11 16y ago
So since most of y'all understand American geography better than Japanese geography: My friends in Osaka (San Fran) felt it. I live in Ogaki (Kansas). There was a mild panic in the mall, and our trains stopped for a few minutes. Folks in Tokyo are largely shaken but not terribly affected (Boston/DC ish). Miyagi/etc (Maine-ish) got a wee bit whacked by a tsunami. They had a few minutes of warning. Reports will come in for a few hours, but we're really good at dealing with this.
- harisenbon 16y ago
  I found the way the news dealt with the Tsunamis amusing. Video: No Tsunamis. Clear water Announcer: 6 Meter Tsunami Warning American News: 10 METER TSUNAMIS!!!! BWAAAA!!!!
- koenigdavidmj 16y ago
  Osaka is kind of cool but gets a bit...weird...at times, there isn't much to speak of in Ogaki, and Miyagi is a fishing town?
  - angus77 16y ago
    Miyagi is a prefecture. Like a state or province.
mitko 16y ago
I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody affected by the earthquake but your comment made me remember this: http://xkcd.com/723/ http://xkcd.com/723/
- ugh 16y ago
  I actually first heard about this earthquake on Twitter (all eyewitness reports, no second hand information). I immediately checked all news sites I could think of (European, US) but none were yet reporting on it.
  - flyt 16y ago
    Facebook for me; I know two people living near Tokyo that instantly updated their statuses and it just snowballed from there. It took the US news (nytimes.com) at least 20 minutes to have anything up, but twitter and facebook exploded instantly.
    - ugh 16y ago
      I just want to make clear that my comment was in no way intended to criticize mass media. It’s just an interesting new development – if you are not directly affected mass media is no longer the fastest way to get breaking news. I want mass media to diligently collect all the information they can get and I know that that takes longer than just sending a tweet. Whether the New York Times writes about the event five minutes or an hour after it happens doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
      - edanm 16y ago
        Just as another data point, I almost never read "mass media", since most things there don't really interest me. (Excluding Technology-related news, which I get from TechCrunch etc.). This used to be a huge problem for me, sine I would be constantly out-of-touch. But nowadays, I find that Twitter/Facebook tend to keep me up to date on anything that's really big.
  - wtn 16y ago
    Time Magazine online posted links to Al Jazeera English streams. They had live reporting very soon after the earthquake.
  - angus77 16y ago

patio11 16y ago

So since most of y'all understand American geography better than Japanese geography: My friends in Osaka (San Fran) felt it. I live in Ogaki (Kansas). There was a mild panic in the mall, and our trains stopped for a few minutes. Folks in Tokyo are largely shaken but not terribly affected (Boston/DC ish). Miyagi/etc (Maine-ish) got a wee bit whacked by a tsunami. They had a few minutes of warning. Reports will come in for a few hours, but we're really good at dealing with this.

harisenbon 16y ago
I found the way the news dealt with the Tsunamis amusing. Video: No Tsunamis. Clear water Announcer: 6 Meter Tsunami Warning American News: 10 METER TSUNAMIS!!!! BWAAAA!!!!
koenigdavidmj 16y ago
Osaka is kind of cool but gets a bit...weird...at times, there isn't much to speak of in Ogaki, and Miyagi is a fishing town?
- angus77 16y ago
  Miyagi is a prefecture. Like a state or province.

mitko 16y ago

I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody affected by the earthquake but your comment made me remember this: http://xkcd.com/723/ http://xkcd.com/723/

ugh 16y ago
I actually first heard about this earthquake on Twitter (all eyewitness reports, no second hand information). I immediately checked all news sites I could think of (European, US) but none were yet reporting on it.
- flyt 16y ago
  Facebook for me; I know two people living near Tokyo that instantly updated their statuses and it just snowballed from there. It took the US news (nytimes.com) at least 20 minutes to have anything up, but twitter and facebook exploded instantly.
  - ugh 16y ago
    I just want to make clear that my comment was in no way intended to criticize mass media. It’s just an interesting new development – if you are not directly affected mass media is no longer the fastest way to get breaking news. I want mass media to diligently collect all the information they can get and I know that that takes longer than just sending a tweet. Whether the New York Times writes about the event five minutes or an hour after it happens doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
    - edanm 16y ago
      Just as another data point, I almost never read "mass media", since most things there don't really interest me. (Excluding Technology-related news, which I get from TechCrunch etc.). This used to be a huge problem for me, sine I would be constantly out-of-touch. But nowadays, I find that Twitter/Facebook tend to keep me up to date on anything that's really big.
- wtn 16y ago
  Time Magazine online posted links to Al Jazeera English streams. They had live reporting very soon after the earthquake.
- angus77 16y ago