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There's probably better figures. Internet providers themselves probably know what subscribers dropped at what times, so you'd be able to distinguish from evacu
by mlyle 2y ago
There's probably better figures. Internet providers themselves probably know what subscribers dropped at what times, so you'd be able to distinguish from evacuations and have a good signal as to whether it happened from power outages or key pieces of their infrastructure failing.
It would be really neat to figure out the cooperation necessary to effectively use it. Rapid damage assessment has a ton of value even if the data is somewhat unreliable.
- dotancohen 2y agoEvacuations are, unfortunately, often accompanied by tweets. As early as 2012 or 2014 a team I was on was able to localize the epicenter of an earthquake by examining the Twitter fire hose, half an hour before the earthquake was announced on any of the major news networks.