Facebook Users Respond To Chile Earthquake Disaster

After yet another natural disaster in the form of an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of central Chilean coast this past weekend, social media is playing a positive role in the recovery, and Facebook’s Global Disaster Relief page is part of the movement.

The need for people to stay in touch in times of crisis is supported by the stats: Facebook updates containing the word “earthquake” numbered almost 860,000 on Saturday, after the earthquake. The day before that, there were only about 37,000 mentions of the word.