Earthquake Detection System Uses Twitter to Collect Accounts of Seismic Activity

Great example of using technology to provide information about emerging events. The Twitter Earthquake Detector (TED) system provides the locations of people who felt the earthquake within a minute of the earthquake's detection by the USGS and provides short, firsthand accounts of its effects. 

 Check out the article at: http://www.emergencymgmt.com/disaster/Earthquake-Detection-System-Uses-Twitter.html?elq=a76b62f696bc4032ad419ab620d90816

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[Website Development in Surrey]

Cool,
Twitter is a great marketing tool too.
Anyway, thanks for the post