Twitter To Be Used By Governments As Earthquake Detector

Geologists in the US and Australia are using Twitter as an earthquake and natural disaster detector, following tweets to pinpoint the areas affected first by these events.

This week, Geosciences Australia met at conference to discuss how to use technology to source data on earthquakes and tsunamis.

As reported by CIO.com, the agency’s chief Andrew Barnicoat had a lot of praise for Twitter as a potential tool for earthquake detection:

“It is effectively a crowd-to-agency system … and the tweeted reports of having felt an earthquake [and] a social epicentre is defined by this data.

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